Ken Goe has his entry in the Oregonian: “The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports continues to be our No. 1 priority,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement released by the conference. “Our decisions have and will be guided by science…
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Universities do that for coaches all the time. For example, over the past 5 years UO has paid former coaches $13.5M. Universities also do it to get rid of bad presidents – e.g. the $940K we paid Gottfredson to go away. But this time a university bought out a tenured…
It was scheduled for Sep 12 at Autzen. Ryan Thorburn has the news in the RG here. Word is that Duck AD Rob Mullens and Coach Cristobal will personally make up any losses to their players’ pay or bonuses.
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3:00 p.m. Finance and Facilities Committee https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/meeting_packet_-_ffc_final_12.3.18.pdf
1. Audited Financial Statements: Jamie Moffitt, Vice President for Finance and Administration and CFO; Kelly Wolf, Associate Vice President and Controller; Scott Simpson, Partner, Moss Adams
Here’s one metric where UO is not at the bottom of the AAU – reserves:
2. Quarterly Financial Reports and Annual Treasury Report: Jamie Moffitt, Vice President for Finance and Administration and CFO; Karen Levear, Director, Treasury Operations
All these business people on the board, and the only trustee who found the error in the report is the UO staff trustee, Jimmy Murray, a librarian. Controller Kelly Wolf thanks him.
As usual these reports do not include any information on the athletics budget, or the various tax changes affecting it, or their subsidies, or their debt obligations. This is despite the fact that in the past trustees have specifically asked to see this.
Rumor down at the faculty club is that the PAC-12 board, which is chaired by President Schill as of July 1, will meet this Friday to discuss what to do about football. The Ivy League has already postponed or maybe cancelled it, that news is here. Meanwhile USA Today reports…
That would be Stanford University – thanks to several readers for the forward. Sacrifices must be made. Except by the golfers, I can’t help but notice: Stanford University logo JULY 8, 2020 An Open Letter to the Stanford Community and the Stanford Athletics Family Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President Persis Drell, Provost…
Dear University of Oregon community, The federal government’s recent guidance forcing the immediate exit from the United States of international students enrolled entirely in online or remote classes is cruel, unfair, and misguided. This is a reversal of guidance issued at the onset of the pandemic that had created helpful…
Our favorite law firm is now down to just 15 attorneys, but with the help of a $350K-$1M Payroll Protection Program loan has been able to retain 20 jobs: And, should you need assistance with your own PPP loan or other parts of the CARES act, former UO General…
Note: These data are from https://transparency.uoregon.edu/ They show authorized expenditures – not actual expenditures. For example, the Law School is authorised to spend $10.8M this year, they probably spent more that $18M. I’ve sorted these by the $ change from 2013-2014 to the 2019-2020 AY. Changes in accounting mean that…
The Pac-12 is run by the 12 university presidents/chancellors. John Canzano has the story here: Scott relayed the bad news to the staff via an email obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive. Scott wrote, “our CEO Group approved our conference budget for this coming year, which includes a 9 percent overall decrease in…
7/5/2020: In the RG letters: As an alumnus, I strongly object to the decision by the University of Oregon to hide any information about the number of athletes testing positive for coronavirus. Why? One, the decision represents a disservice to, and potentially puts at risk, other members of the team…
Campus has been closed for almost 4 months. Classes, meetings, union bargaining, everything is online. Sorry, I mean virtual. Everything is closed, even Taylors. Well, not everything. Uncle Phil’s unpaid Duck football players have been back on campus for a few weeks, for “voluntary” workouts and practices. And no one…
I love a good de-statufication as much as the next guy. And dragging its de-nosed carcass up the steps of Johnson Hall? That was an awesome coup de grace. Respect. But throwing red paint at the library? Really? This is junior-high school lame. In the Daily Emerald here: