12/21/2010: OK, actually this NY Times story has nothing to say about Doug Tripp and Frances Dyke’s plan to convert DPS to an expensive and well armed police department. They are writing about the general need for more mental health counselors for college students. You do the math.
UO Matters
12/21/2010: This is *one sentence* from the Oregonian blog post pushing Paul Kelly and George Pernsteiner’s OUS higher ed plan, written by their spokesperson Di Saunders. Read this and ask if these people should be in charge of higher ed in Oregon: Creating advantages, efficiencies, and cost control through structural…
12/20/2010: When President Lariviere hired Jamie Moffitt as “Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration” and then Rob Mullens as AD, I expected that they would start sending some of the athletic department’s money back to the academic side. At Kentucky, Mullens had given back about $1 million…
12/17/2010: That would be the new President of Missouri State: “This has been a fairly laissez-faire type of institution where you just kind do what you want to do, … There’s no control, there is no policy. There really is no oversight. People just spend. That’s the inheritance we have here,…
12/16/2010: Former Oregon Commentator writer Ed Niedermeyer continues to make trouble, but now in the NY Times: “In particular, what Mr. Obama called his “one goal” — having Detroit “lead the world in building the next generation of clean cars” — is nowhere near being achieved. While the idea of…
12/15/2010: Excerpting from Bill Graves in the Oregonian: SALEM – A bipartisan legislative task force Wednesday approved a plan that would give Oregon public universities more autonomy while bringing them under the authority of a new Higher Education Coordinating Commission. The proposed Higher Education Coordinating Commission would set goals and…
12/15/2010: Greg Bolt has an excellent summary of the politics of Lariviere’s restructuring plan in the RG. I like the part where the UO Foundation lobbyist calls the argument from OUS Board President Paul Kelly “crazy”. Who appointed Paul Kelly, why does he hate us, and how in the world…
12/15/2010: Greg Bolt has a substantive piece on the promotion of Michael Moffitt to law school dean. Mat Wolf of the ODE has another. The search did include outside candidates. Moffitt’s plans apparently include raising money to expand the building – which, I believe, was Phil Knight’s last contribution to…
12/14/2010: From the official announcement: The University of Oregon is firmly committed to diversity and seeks to further this goal among our faculty, staff and student body. To lead us in these efforts, we are searching for a new Vice President of the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity to…
12/12/2010: This quarter’s grades are now up for the UO administrators. Given that Chip Kelly only got an A-, our poll responders seem a bit on the tough side. You want to see more evidence of effort? . Title Name Fall 2010 GPA Fall 2010 Grade . Coach, Football Kelly,…
12/11/2010: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: “We see their position as what is good for the UO with very little consideration for the impact on others in the system,” Kelly said. That’s Paul Kelly, the OUS board chair. The guy who happily signed off on furloughs for the staff,…
12/10/2010: The Connecting Eugene group recently made this appeal to the Senate Transparency Committee regarding UO’s delay responding to public records requests about the Trammmel Crow / ORI / Riverfront Research contracts, and UO’s refusal to grant a public interest fee waiver for the documents. Yesterday the committee met to address this complaint.…
The UO Senate Transparency Committee will meet with UO Public Records Officer Liz Denecke this Thursday 12/9/2010 at 11 AM, in the EMU Oak room. From the UO Senate Calendar: Senate Transparency Committee Date: Thu, 12/09/2010 – 11:00am Location: Oak Room in the EMU All meetings of the STC are…
12/8/2010: UO student and ODE Opinion Editor Tyree Harris has an extremely interesting Op-Ed in the Oregonian on black culture and his place in it. (Thanks to Tomchak for the link.) Being called a sellout because I don’t accept the media-spun perceptions of blackness made me paranoid and uncomfortable. I was…
12/8/2010: Not sure this is a new job, but it looks like Frances Dyke is giving DPS a new administrator to keep track of all the money she is throwing at them. Presumably this will be paid for out of the $3 million that she just took back from the…