7/18/2011: And I ain’t talking about the carpets in PLC. Contract and invoices here. $8,359.12 last month, including a trip to Eugene – looks like a last minute airfare purchase. UO GC Randy Geller contracted with these guys for $150,000 – and he is now trying to charge the faculty…
UO Matters
7/17/2011: Maybe the UO staff won’t need to strike at the start of fall quarter. From Dennis Thompson in the Statesman Journal: Kitzhaber has demanded that state employees pay 5 percent of their health care premiums as part of the new contract for the 2011-13 biennium. The unions appear to…
7/17/2011: “This is simply unacceptable”. From a post on his Presidential blog. Oh wait, he’s talking about the athletes: Athletes must maintain standards of behavior The University of Oregon has clear expectations of how its student athletes are to behave both on and off the field of play. Lately, several…
7/17/2011: OUS meetings usually consist of George Pernsteiner and the Board chair (was Paul Kelly, soon Matt Donegan) telling UO how much money they are going to take from us for “overhead“. This 7/21/2011 governance meeting looks slightly more interesting. The docket is a review of how other states handle…
7/16/2011: SAN DIEGO (AP) — About 200 active-duty troops and veterans wearing T-shirts advertising their branch of service marched Saturday in San Diego’s gay pride parade with American flags and rainbow banners, marking what is believed to be the first time a military contingent has participated in such an event…
7/16/2011: From the NYT, by David Segal. Worth one of your twenty. Along with stuff like this: “In these materials and in our conversations with students and applicants,” he wrote, “we explicitly tell them that most graduates find work in small to medium firms at salaries between $35,000 and $75,000.”…
7/16/2010: As part of it’s efforts to prevent “street agents” from sneaking off with any of the NCAA’s money the NCAA slapped a bunch of anti-competitive rules on recruiting services last year: Steve Andress of KEZI explains: NCAA Bylaw 13.14.3 lays out the rules for contracting a recruiting service. The…
7/15/2011: More docs on the way on Pernsteiner’s croissant expenditures, Treetops, and the OUS board. Probably next week. Vice Chancellor Jay Kenton is looking into the question of whether or not to let Pernsteiner keep his dual housing allowances, maid, etc. My guess is this will be a long process…
7/15/2011: From Patrick Manning at FoxNews: A deaf, sign language professor is planning to sue to get his job back at the University of Oregon after he was fired for a sarcastic comment he made about shooting a student in the head for speaking out in class. … Dean Bullis…
7/15/2011: Here. It’s a mix of the usual complete bullshit and some hopeful signs that we might actually hire someone who will make some progress on these important issues. The best part is that when the administration decides we are still “under-administered” and need a VP for Sustainability, they can…
7/15/2011: They allowed a football player to keep $312 in free clothes. That’s right – a player. Not a coach or an athletic director or an ESAADFFAA, but a player. Unspeakable. We all know what rewarding people for their work can lead to. So our protectors in the NCAA have…
7/14/2011: Costs and benefits matter. People are more likely to remember information if they think it won’t be on Google. From Science. I forget who wrote it.
7/14/2011: Charles Martinez’s OIED spent $903,587 last year – that’s just counting salaries and administrative overhead for his office, not program costs. Add another $100,000 to cover the cost of hiring a search firm to find a competent and honest replacement for him. For comparison, in 2009-10 UO awarded $1,706,250…
when he reads this in the morning Oregonian: SALEM — The Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted Wednesday to issue letters of reprimand to three investment officers at the Oregon State Treasury. A majority of the commission agreed there were violations of state ethics law involving travel expenses and reimbursements while…
7/13/2011: to the “Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson” firm. $75,000 so far, and we don’t have a job description yet. From their prospectus letter: The draft I saw today – it will be posted here on Friday – was a hodgepodge of the usual platitudes – prepare a new “5 year…