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…
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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…
8/18/2010: At some point college athletics, which is almost entirely driven by the profits earned by the football team, is going to have to deal with this issue. Fortunately the coaches are earning enough money to pay for long term care insurance for their players. Will they?
8/17/2010: We’ve reported before on the fact that UO spends 96% of the public research university average on Central Administration, versus only 63% on research. Insidehighered.com discusses several studies of the general trend: “Administrative bloat” is the cause of rising costs in American higher education, according to a report being…
8/16/2010: Good story on out of state students at UO, from Bill Graves in the Oregonian: … The California students are like gold to Oregon universities because they pay triple the tuition charged to resident students. At UO, a full-time out-of-state student will pay $25,830 in tuition and fees next…
8/15/2010: George Schroeder of the RG has a story on new AD Rob Mullens, he starts work Monday, 2 weeks early. And the RG Editorial Board gives him a lengthy To Do list, including: 3. Get your staff in order. The athletic department’s current administration is a hodgepodge from the…
8/15/2010: Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian has a long story on PERS and the prospects for reforms, with very specific discussions of the costs and benefits of various reform proposals.