10/9/2010: Update, the DPS budget for 2006-2011 is here. Up a bit more than 100% *before* the costs of converting to a sworn force.. The whole of the College of Arts and Sciences, for comparison, is up a bit less than 50%. Apparently DPS is having a hard time spending…
UO Matters
10/7/2010: The campus erupted in celebration back in April when Pres Lariviere fired General Counsel Melinda Grier and announced: “This institution did not follow acceptable business practices in the past,” Lariviere said. “That will not be repeated under my administration.” Jeff Manning and Ken Goe of the Oregonian wrote: Grier,…
10/6/2010: From the announcement of UO’s summer research awards program, below: “It is anticipated that up to twenty awards in the amount of $4,500 each will be granted.” That’s as much as $90,000! This could increase UO’s research expenditures from 63.25% of average to 63.33%! Meanwhile, in the past 3…
10/6/2010: This is a bad change for any students who have parents or relatives with a job. VP for Student Affairs Robin Holmes justifies it as follows: With 30,000 visitors and 29 events, it takes an army of university staff and faculty to coordinate the important events of commencement day. …
10/4/2010: … over her convocation statements complaining about the EPD “tear gas attack”, vehemently opposing President Lariviere’s restructuring plan, and calling on students to register to vote and then to oppose it. By Commentator Editor Lyzi Diamond. Personally, I think Ms Rousseau is wrong on Pres Lariviere’s restructuring plan, but…
10/4/2010: I’ve talked to way too many reporters over the years. They would spit in the phone everytime UO’s public records boss Melinda Grier’s name was mentioned. Steve Duin of the Oregonian compared her operation to the KGB. It took a rebellion of sportswriters over the Bellotti payoff to get…
10/3/2010: Greg Bolt has a few articles today on the athletic department budget (Mullens’s report is here), including one on how little data Jamie Moffitt and Rob Mullens are willing to provide the press. Here are some additional spreadsheets, that include somewhat more detailed breakdowns of revenue and expenses than…
10/2/2010: Ron Bellamy of the RG and Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian write on Mullens’s contract. Full version here. There’s an extra $50K in deferred compensation and a list of perks not included in the original stories, based on the term sheet. Whatever. There are also incentives for bowl games,…
My god: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/nyregion/30suicide.html?hp Three lives. Universities need to spend money on counseling for their students, not police. Sell those new police interceptors and start hiring on Monday.
9/30/2010: I’ve posted a copy of the freshly signed contract for UO Athletic Director Rob Mullens here. I asked for it because I was curious about the talk I’d been hearing about the “Director’s Cup”. This is an NCAA competition between athletic directors for the most successful overall athletic program.…
9/29/2010: Utterly unsurprising news in the RG today. The arena is not going to bring in the revenue Frohnmayer promised when he was selling the bonds to the legislature. And Chip Kelly needs another big raise to keep him on board. So the ticket money will go to Kelly, and…
9/28/2010: The NRC graduate rankings are out, Chronicle.com has a spiffy interactive tool, probably only accessible from campus. Many UO programs do very well – even without adjusting for shitty faculty pay and the fact that UO research support is 63% of average. The new quantitative methodology adopted by NRC…
9/28/2010: President Obama that is: In a conference call with student journalists on Monday, President Obama renewed his calls for reining in college costs, saying that every institution should provide a chart showing how each tuition dollar is spent. He also questioned the need for expensive amenities. “You’re not going…
9/28/2010: In several recent posts I’ve said or implied that the Dyke-Tripp proposal is to create an armed UO police force. This is wrong, and an informed reader clarifies: … the proposal on the table is to have the DPS officers elevated to the status of police officers WITHOUT arming…
9/27/2010: Mat Wolf of the ODE has a story on Friday’s riot. Remember all those stories about how computers and texting make our students withdraw from reality? Never mind – turns out somebody organized a party with facebook and it got out of control, the cops were called, and now…