3/7/2011: I’m guessing Liz Denecke and UO’s $250,000 a year public records office – paid for by the academic side – is going to be busy.
UO Matters
3/7/2011: Two significant things have been happening in student government. First despite a lot of pressure, and support from ASUO Pres Amelie Rousseau, they have refused to resume funding for OSPIRG. This has been a student government fight for years. The basic argument is that it sent too much money…
3/7/2011: From Doug Lederman and Scott Jaschik at Insidehighered.com. Apparently this is a trend: Other signs are also apparent in the survey results of a growing distance between faculty members and presidents. Asked which groups of campus constituents have been most helpful in confronting the economic challenges of the last…
3/7/2011: This Insidehighered.com survey of the literature finds the only noticeable impact is on adjuncts – it’s large – and at 2-year colleges.
3/8/2011 update: Richard Read of the Oregonian gets some amazing quotes on this, from the PSU CI head. 3/6/2011: The London School of Economics has thoroughly embarrassed itself with its ties to the Gaddafi regime. The world now knows you can buy an LSE PhD and whatever that brings in…
3/6/2011: The only regular professor on the search committee for the Frances Dyke replacement is Phil Romero. Phil was the B-school dean before Jim Bean, left for a job at CSU – Los Angeles, but is now apparently back teaching business classes at UO. There is no one else among…
3/6/2011: POCATELLO —One of Idaho State University’s major financial donors has some harsh words for both ISU President Arthur Vailas and the State Board of Education about the escalating turmoil on campus. “The president is not there to be supported entirely by students and by faculty,” said James E.…
3/5/2011: The editorial board’s endorsement is, unfortunately, anything but unqualified: The UO plan is an essential acknowledgment that if Oregon is to have any chance of achieving its ambitious higher education goals, it must get more — much more — private support for its public system. We know the UO…
3/5/2011: The academic side pays $2 million for the Jock Box tutoring, and millions more for other athletic subsidies. Including the $250,000 for our suddenly very busy Public Records Officer, Liz Denecke. But hey – look what the Ducks do for our national reputation! Two mentions in the NY Times…
3/4/2011: I’m as shocked as you to see those words appear together. But it seems Chip Kelly and Rob Mullens Mike Bellotti or Lorraine Davis paid $25,000 in state money to some guy for his help in getting running back Lache Seastrunk to sign with UO. The NCAA is or…
3/4/2011: State energy official Mark Long was accused of helping Cylvia Hayes, Kitzhaber’s girlfriend, get a chunk of a federal grant. If I read this story right, Long’s attorneys Dave Frohnmayer and Bill Gary have now leaked a bunch of documents to the Oregonian, and are now threatening Sean Riddell,…
3/4/2011: From Mark Costigan in the ODE, attacking his lack of transparency: Transparency has been a problem in political and educational administrations nationwide, but Lariviere has demonstrated he has little to no intentions of changing that trend. As we move out of the public sector, this could pose a serious…
3/3/2011: In Indiana. He’s the secretary of state. Turns out this is a felony in Oregon too.
3/3/2011: ORI needs a new building. Fail. UO’s Riverfront Research Park needs to fill one of its many empty sites. Fail. Eugene’s environmentalists need to lose their reputation for ensuring nothing ever gets built here. Fail. UO needs to lose its reputation for sleazy real estate deals. Fail. President Lariviere…
3/2/2011: In testimony at the legislature yesterday President Lariviere raised the stakes and then called Pernsteiner’s bluff, adding a 5% in-state tuition cap to his new partnership plan. He can do this because his plan includes a fixed state contribution, large new private donations, and a workable strategy for getting…