4/18/2011: I sprung for the NYT 99 cent trial: Business majors spend less time preparing for class than do students in any other broad field, according to the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement: nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a…
UO Matters
4/17/2011: Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has just wrapped up a great 5 part retrospective on the Rajneeshee movement in Oregon. The Oregonian is a consistently interesting newspaper with an excellent website. Meanwhile the 4J school board has stabbed the 4J teachers and the supporters of a Eugene income tax…
4/18/2011: I just got an email from PEBB: *CORRECTION*You received the below email with invalid links to the websites. Please use the links below. We apologize for any inconvenience. … But the links in the new email actually seem the same. I did successfully register using the procedure below. I…
4/16/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian gives the background, stirred by the memory of UO journalism professor Ken Metzler. You can read excerpts from Metzler’s book on Johnson here: This is just one little incident – caused by the Daily Emerald printing the phrase “Mother Fuckers” on state owned equipment.…
4/15/2011 update: The standard way around the confidentiality issues is to hire a trusted independent firm to collect the data and interview employees. In 2009 VP Frances Dyke did hire such a firm, Stan McKnight and Associates – but she hired them to do some union busting for the AAUP/AFT…
reports Frances Dyke is searching around for a scapegoat to stick the ORSA collapse / Huron boondoggle on. Uh, that’s your name on the contracts, Ms Dyke.
4/14/2011: Last week I asked Liz Denecke for a copy of the Huron consulting report – which the contract amendment says was to be complete by 3/15. Turns out Dyke and Huron mutually agreed to put it off until the end of June. OK, I’ve now asked for copies of…
4/14/2011: Looks like our croissant loving Chancellor, Dr. George Pernsteiner, has come through for independence. Bill Graves in the Oregonian: A bill that would free Oregon universities from hundreds of state agency regulations and give them more control over their money and operations appears to have all the support it…
4/13/2011: A very good idea: Preferred Background Experience in student recruitment, education advocacy, or college counseling Proficiency and fluency (grammar, spelling, syntax, structure) in both written and spoken Spanish Experience with, or graduation from, the University of Oregon This is a full time, 12-month, fixed-term appointment. Salary range is $29,000…
4/13/2011: This just in from Bean. Excellent news, she was the search committee’s top choice. And this was a real national search with real faculty on the hiring committee. Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the hiring of Kimberly A. Espy as the University of Oregon’s new Vice President…
4/13/2011: (Updated, Verbano ODE story here, bojack.org here.) A random dump of a few months of OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner’s expense accounts. Our Chancellor does not let a croissant pass his lips without charging it to the taxpayers and students. Extrapolating, it looks like about $7000 in per diem charges per…
4/12/2011: Good call: From: “Nathan Tublitz” Date: April 12, 2011 6:17:48 PM PDTTo: [email protected]: president Lariviere , [email protected]: senate10_11: US10/11-10 New Partnership motion withdrawnReply-To: [email protected] Dear Senators, President Lariviere and Provost Bean: I write to let you know that the Senate Executive Committee, sponsor of US10/11-10 Motion to endorse the…
4/12/2011: From what I hear Huron and Moira Kiltie have fixed the ORSA situation and it is now running smoothly. But this was – is – sure expensive, and Linton is still not telling us how it got this bad. $1,789,000 should at least buy a story. But nope –…
4/12/2011: Nice try, from Pernsteiner’s attorney: The complete letter is here. Mr. Gary’s letter does not seem consistent with Chancellor Pernsteiner’s expense accounts and calender, here. But some additional data should answer that question, and I will get it. I certainly don’t want to clog the tubes with inaccurate posts!
4/11/2011: VP for Research Rich Linton has now issued an explanation of who is running ORSA (Moira Kiltie has just been promoted) and who all the Huron consultants are. Rich is not providing a word on the cost – but here are the contracts and $1.5 million in invoices. Another…