2/17/2011: From Insidehighered.com. The UW-Madison head says: “In my view, it is dangerous not only for UW-Madison, but for the entire System and the state to have the System administration and the regents oppose the possibility that its flagship campus, or any other campus, be given the tools it needs…
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2/17/2011: The union organizers have dropped the OA’s from their proposed bargaining unit and if they have any sense they will also drop the part-time NTTF’s – who have very different interests than the faculty and full-time NTTFs. So maybe it’s time to start taking the union seriously. This event…
2/16/2011: College athletics is corrupt to the core. The PlayoffPAC website has story after story: “Tostitos Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker, a fixture with the game for three decades and one of college football’s most prominent bowl executives, was placed on administrative leave Monday as officials continue to investigate allegations…
2/15/2011: Lariviere is in Salem today, lobbying the legislature. From David Sarasohn in the Oregonian: “We’re trying to preserve the public status of one of America’s great public universities,” Lariviere told his troops, sounding a Rockne-like tone unusual in the gray-flannel suits of university presidents. “Oregon is ready for this,…
2/14/2011: Stefan Verbano of the ODE quotes former UO Business School Dean and current marketing Prof Dennis Howard – strange, he doesn’t look like a revolutionary threat to the established order – on the link between athletic contributions and the real University of Oregon: “It’s called a donation or a…
2/11/2011: A small part of the Treetops costs. More later.
2/10/2011: Mrs George T. Gerlinger, a.k.a. Irene Hazard Gerlinger, of UO’s Gerlinger Hall, cautions the legislature on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s power grab:
2/10/2011: Circa 1984, I’m guessing. Keep them coming, commentators. Link to 6mb file of about 25, here:
2/9/2011: From a PSU town hall on Pernsteiner’s plan: Despite the objections, Beaverton Democrat Chris Harker, who sits on the House committee giving the bill its first hearings, predicted it has a good chance of passing. “There is real momentum now,” Harker said. “I think we’re going to get it…
2/7/2011: People have been asking how giving at UO compares with other schools. The comparison group is the 54 public universities, Carnegie high or very high research research, with from 10K to 30K students, reporting to CAE. For the 2009-2010 academic year donations for UO athletics were 357% of the…
2/7/2011: The UO Foundation has refused to say much about their operations, to the point of hiring an attorney last year to get them an exclusion from the public records law. Nice try – I’m no economist, but I know a few things about finding data. No wonder they’ve been…
2/8/2011 update: Liz Denecke responds to our request for a little transparency about the current DPS Director and his two predecessors: Nice to hear from you. As to your first request, the resumes and cover letters from theemployment applications for Richard Turkiewicz, Kevin Williams, andDouglas Tripp became faculty records once…
“The board recognizes the educational value of many of these activities as part of the training of youth, but it proposes to see that the plan of payment for these activities is just.” … “The “over-emphasis” on athletics is intensified mainly by the neglect of other needs.” April 17,…
2/3/2011: We’ve written before on George Pernsteiner’s bizarre path to the top of Oregon’s higher education bureaucracy. Now it appears Kitzhaber has decided to keep him on as chancellor. That’s a bummer. Again, no search, no alternative candidates, no transparency. Given Pernsteiner’s self-interested opposition to Lariviere’s New-Partnership plan, this is…
2/2/2011: UO now has an online “official organ”, Inside Oregon. It’s OK. They’ve even got blogs on the hot topics: Francis Dyke’s plan for an armed UO police force, and President Lariviere’s new partnership plan. I gave their comments a test and the editor, Joe Moseley, is approving the critical…