5/25/2011: Jack Bogdanski is not impressed: Her name is Monica Rimai, and she comes to Portlandia from the State University of New York, where she was the chief operating officer. She was at SUNY for just a year and a half; she was reportedly making $325,000 a year there, along…
UO Matters
5/25/2011: (reposted, original lost in the blogger reboot). Oregon’s unemployment rate is 10.5%, but UO is doing what it can to put people to work in key sectors of the American economy of the future. First there’s the mission critical “Cheer Advisor” job. The ad calls for: Proven ability to…
5/25/2011: From Rob Moseley in the RG talking about the recent NCAA release of academic progress: Oregon’s four-year average of 941 was ninth among Pac-12 teams, and the 932 for 2009-10 was 11th among the 12 teams that will make up the conference this fall. Oregon State scored 959 as…
5/24/2011: I missed the AAUP/AFT union event Tuesday afternoon. Announcement here. The union’s facebook site is here. Adeline Bash’s ODE story here: “It’s always gotten worse than I thought it would be,” Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said of his decade-long predictions that higher education…
5/23/2011: Frances Dyke’s “liar’s budget” says sworn armed UO police will cost us the equivalent of 3 RA positions a year. The truth is it has already cost us about 20 – the budget is up $500,000 or so. Why is a sworn police force UO’s top priority? From the…
5/23/2011: According to all the data, what UO needs most to keep our AAU status is more GTF/GRA positions. But instead we are going to spend the money on another administrator. I love the responsibilities part. “Develop a strategic communications plan.” What the fuck does this have to do with…
5/19/2011: Here’s a bit of highly relevant news for the UO faculty union movement, from Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago filed for union recognition last month — moving to become one of a small number of research universities to seek collective bargaining for professors, and…
5/19/2011: In case you were wondering what UO’s best paid professor is up to now. Jeff Manning in the Oregonian: Two influential Oregon lawyers have accused the current top criminal lawyer in the state Justice Department of lying to suspects to intimidate them, which they claim violates Oregon State Bar…
5/19/2011: Or the usual recession result? Don’t expect the NY Times to actually do any analysis. A quotefest from Catherine Rampell in the NY Times: The median starting salary for students graduating from four-year colleges in 2009 and 2010 was $27,000, down from $30,000 for those who entered the work…
5/17/2011: The UO Foundation has finally submitted its 2009 IRS 990 form. This covers the FY from July 1 2009 to June 30 2010. That’s right, the most recent data the foundation will release is almost a year old. Download here. The IRS reporting requirements are tightening though, and this…
5/13/2011: There are some intermittent problems with posting, comments, and with the polls (the n seems to have doubled overnight). This has happened before, blogger.com usually fixes it in a day or two.
At Duke, that is. From Libby Sander in the Chronicle, 5/12/2011: Deborah Jakubs, vice provost for library affairs at Duke University, was at a dean’s retreat one Saturday in February when she fell into conversation with the university’s athletic director, Kevin White. The two agreed that they should find a…
5/11/2011: The ivory tower has never been exactly snowy white, but here is an example of a particularly egregious case, the Koch gifts to fund chairs in Free Market Economics at Florida State. Fascinating gift letter/contract here, news story from Kris Hundley of the St. Petersburg Times (that’s Florida, not…
5/11/2011: Two interesting stories in the ODE. Nora Simon has a retrospective on UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz’s term: Shared governance means the Senate and the administration have joint power to make decisions that affect the University, according to the University’s charter, and Tublitz has fought to keep that relationship…
College Republicans, FIRE, Zoo
5/17/2011: Two posts from the OC: College Republican BBQ is Saturday at 1PM, organized by Zach Webb. Art Robinson will speak. Vegetarian option available. Lyzi Diamond writes on FIRE and how they would run the zoo.