12/27/2010: A Law Dean at the University of Maryland. From the Chronicle and the Sun: Former Maryland law dean agrees to return more than $300,000 Rothenberg reaches settlement with attorney general, will return to full-time faculty duties in January December 22, 2010|By Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun The former dean…
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Update: Today the RG prints an Op-Ed from Director George Leef of the Pope Center for Higher Ed Policy opposing Lariviere’s plan: Another part of his plan is that university spending of this revenue stream will be overseen by a publicly appointed board that would guard against waste. The trouble…
12/24/2010: UO’s Public Records Officer Liz Denecke and AD Rob Mullens are now using FERPA privacy rules to block the release of public records of an NCAA investigation of the Ducks. This is after the RG paid Denecke $367.29 for the records. They made the request September 14. On December…
12/22/2010: No, don’t. That would be insane. Not that I’m an expert on charitable giving. I do get asked if we accept donations though. We don’t, unless they are in bottles and aged at least 12 years. Google gives us most of what we need free. Dropbox does the rest.…
12/22/2010: USA Today has a long report on the recent explosion in salaries for assistant football coaches, with a special focus on Oregon. At UO there are 9 assistants, making an average of over $400,000 each, with bonuses. Add in Kelly’s $3.5 million, Altman’s $1.5, Mullens’s $600,000, and the $2.3…
12/22/2010: That would be the new President of UVa. Jack Stripling of Insidehighered.com has an interesting article on her efforts to involve faculty in financial decision-making: The 13-member crew, whose membership is weighted toward those with some business or finance acumen, is charged to serve as an informal advisory group…
From the RG letters section: The Dec. 18 article “UO’s retail revision” suggests a tone-deaf University of Oregon Athletic Department that has come to believe its own hype…. Joe Giansante’s bloated, mercenary vision of the university. He trills that “Oregon is a national brand. Serving fans around the world is…
12/21/2010: Oregon has good public records and meetings laws. But the State’s Attorneys General who enforce these laws also provide legal representation to state agencies – agencies who often would much prefer to keep the records hidden. Dave Frohnmayer, ironically, was the best of the recent AGs at supporting the…
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.
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…