8/27/2010: By Ben Jacklet in Oregon Business: … George Fox fielded a football team from 1894 to 1968 but dropped it when the team could no longer compete. Bringing back football after a 42-year absence is a point of pride to University President Robin Baker, and a smart business decision.…
UO Matters
8/26/2010: Pres Lariviere has a new blog post on his UO restructuring plan: The Oregon University System (OUS) has adopted aspects of our proposal, including a plan to seek legislative authority for the creation of campus-level governing boards that would guide individual universities’ operations. Now comes a critical next phase…
8/25/2010: UO Professor Matt Dennis has a good RG Op-Ed about the “mosque” at ground-zero. Putting his name to a piece like this takes a little more courage than talking to the usual campus crowd. It’s also the most important part of the job of being a history professor: Most…
8/25/2010: From Carla River in the LA Times. The Oregon DOJ has recently ruled that the UO Foundation is similarly exempt. Searching through the UO Foundation’s reports to the IRS, you come across tidbits like that below. And people think PERS is a benefits scam. This is from 2005, salaries…
8/24/2010: You can read the Oregonian’s story on the Kitzhaber girlfriend investigation. Or you can read this one on the blog Jack Bogdanski runs as a hobby. Jack’s has smarter comments too.
8/24/2010: There are still some weird parts to Dave Frohnmayer’s retirement gig. While his new TRP contract is all about the law school, Frohnmayer is in the class schedule as teaching a mix of law and honors college courses. Looks to me like he was planning to continue collecting his…
8/23/2010: We wrote a few weeks ago about how Russ Tomlin brought a sudden end to Dave Frohnmayer’s freeloading golden parachute retirement ride. Now the Law School has added another course to the teaching load for former General Counsel Melinda Grier. Of course, this is still just 8 credits, for…
Richard Sundt emailed us a bit more background on his RG letter, regarding the full page ad from the UO Foundation Trustees on the Knight donations: What I wanted to say in the ad, but dropped it (and a few other things) in order to observe the 250-word limit, is…
8/21/2010: Sorry, this, from Steve Fainaru in the NY Times, on Mark Yudof, President of UC, has nothing to do with UO matters, but is just hilarious throughout: After the Yudofs vacated the property at the end of June, Brennan Mulligan, the landlord, informed university officials that he intended to…
8/21/2010: Richard Sundt from Art History has a letter in the RG on the recent advertisement the UO Foundation put in the RG. I didn’t see it but apparently they thanked Phil Knight for his contributions to UO Academics, while studiously ignoring his much larger contributions to athletics. Board members…
8/21/2010: From Greg Bolt in the RG: A group opposed to the construction of a new building in the University of Oregon’s Riverfront Research Park has dropped its appeal of the project. The group, Connecting Eugene, on Friday said that rather than pursue the case with the Oregon Court of…
8/20/2010: UO, the players, and the taxpayers would benefit, but the coaches would lose.
8/19/2010: Via Marginal Revolution: Perceptions of a tattooed college instructor. Wiseman DB. Psychology Department, Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738, USA. [email protected] Abstract 128 undergraduates’ perceptions of tattoos on a model described as a college instructor were assessed. They viewed one of four photographs of a…
8/19/2010: UO has failed to make the Sierra Clubs list of America’s 162 greenest campuses, a.k.a. “Cool Schools”. (The Dog comments that it’s likely no one at UO bothered to complete the survey). Obviously we will now need to further increase administrative spending on sustainability. Or not – Scott Carlson…
8/18/2010: We expect that new AD Rob Mullens will release some honest accounting of the athletic department budget soon. Maybe. Insidehighered.com reports: Yet again, nearly every Division I athletics program spent more than it made last year. And at a time when many are feeling pressure to achieve self-sufficiency, these…