8/8/2010: From Greg Bolt in the RG. If I understand it right more students than expected are coming and fewer than expected are dropping their dorm room contracts. Seems like housing is handling it much better than in 2008, when they shuffled the overflow across the river. This time they…
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8/7/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian. $41,677,868 total. Almost 20% more than a Gehry. I’m no economist, but after tax deductions, this breaks down to about $22 million from Phil Knight, $16 million from US taxpayers, and $4 million from Oregon taxpayers. The gift that keeps on taking. The…
8/5/2010: Imagine what they could do with the $905,000 the VP for Diversity budgets for administrative expenses and reviewing “diversity action plan strategic reports”. Camp for a cause | A series of University of Oregon summer programs aims to give low-income high school and middle school students a taste of…
8/5/2010: From InsideHighered.com With backing from the New York State Human Rights Division, Csaba Marosan is suing Trocaire College, saying that the Roman Catholic institution discriminated against him because of his accent (he’s from Hungary) and because he is straight, ABC News reported. The state agency investigated his complaint and…
8/5/2010: From Eric Kelderman in the Chronicle: One year into her tenure as chancellor of the State University of New York, the State Legislature handed Nancy L. Zimpher her first major political defeat, rejecting a package of regulatory changes meant to allow public universities to earn more money outside of…
8/4/2010: At Missouri State, we mean. Change a few names and this story from the Springield Missouri News-Leader is eerily similar to the ones Ryan Knutson wrote for the Oregon Daily Emerald. The quote at the end from the new president sums it all up: “I will not ask for…
8/3/2010: From the Volokh Conspiracy, word on a potentially important circuit court decision imposing strict limits on when universities can charge controversial speakers for security. I don’t know if this will affect what UO does, e.g. with Pacifica Forum.
8/3/2010: The 19 AAU schools with the lowest federal research funding, out of the 63 members: And we already know full prof salaries are 84% of our peers. So where does UO excel? In the percentage of our budget that goes to Central Administration. They cost us 96% of the…
8/2/2010: Update from Emily Gillespie in the RG: One of the most contentious issues is health care coverage. In previous contracts, the University has covered 100 percent of teaching fellows’ health insurance. This time, the university is asking fellows to pay 10 percent of those costs, citing the rising costs…
8/2/2010: The details of the OUS system’s proposed restructuring plan are becoming clearer. From their Governance and Policy Planning Committee website. They are not proposing to give up much control to UO!: …3. Board will seek new legal status with state that differs from that of a state agency.…9. Tuition…
8/2/2010: If we are reading the report right, Academic Affairs has actually managed to shrink it’s administrative budget, from $1.15M in 2008 to $1.05M in 2010. Congratulations!
8/1/2010: The job ad says apply by 7/8 for full consideration, but there’s still no sign that UO has managed to find a taker for the General Counsel position. It’s now more than three months since Melinda Grier was fired. Meanwhile Doug Park is getting a $1400 stipend tacked onto…
7/30/2010: More from “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability” and their online database of the federally required reports to IPEDS. Looking at UO’s spending per student FTE compared to Carnegie Public Research university averages, for 2008. We spend: $2,347 on Central administration. 96% of the average…
7/29/2010: Stefan Verbano has a piece in the ODE on the new 153 slot parking lot UO will build to replace the space athletics took for the Jock Box. The city has decided to extend the public comment period another week: The Campus Planning and Real Estate website lists the…
7/29/2010: UO’s research expenditures are 63% of the nat’l public research U average. And our true spending priorities are revealed once more: We’ve written once or twice before about how Charles Martinez can’t find time to do his job as UO’s Diversity Vice President. Because he’s got another job on…