Just kidding. Our Trustees rely on Angela Wilhelms to spoon-feed them their agenda, and these data will not be on the menu for their June 4 meeting: They have hired a consultant to explain this to them though:
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This program has been around for years as a way for employers to reduce hours for a group of employees, rather than layoff a few of them. Normally it’s a mixed bag – employees have their hours and pay reduced by 20-40%, and then get back about 2/3rds of the…
It certainly looks that way. Here are the basic operational metrics, courtesy of Brad Shelton: Total expenditures per student credit hour have increased by 64% in just 4 years. Where is that money going? In response to a question, here are the definitions, available at https://ir.uoregon.edu/ under Operational Metrics, along…
I”m posting this with a new tag, “financial exigency”, as there will surely be a series of proposals of this sort coming. Rumor has it that the Law School and CoD are the next candidates, with Law being the biggest money pit by far. These sorts of changes are core…
Of course she will. From the Oregonian: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown may alter her executive order to allow college athletes in the state to return to on-campus gyms and fitness centers for voluntary activities, provided they otherwise meet other safety protocols. …
Post-live blog: I zoomed in for most of this. The most real part was Rob Mullens talking about possible NCAA cost-cutting measures. Cutting student-athlete scholarships was on the list, reducing the number of assistant coaches was not. 5/23/2020: The Senate turned this committee over to the President’s office back in…
The decisions about UO’s financial and academic response to the coronavirus and its long term consequences are being made by Pres Mike Schill, Provost Patrick Phillips, BoT Secretary Angela Wilhems, VPBP Brad Shelton, CAS Dean Bruce Blonigen, and VPFA Jamie Moffitt in secret. The idea that they would use this…
Our Trustees will meet again on June 4th by Zoom, presumably to approve another $12M Jumbotron for Uncle Phil. Meanwhile, The Daily Emerald has the story on Governor Kate Brown’s nomination of current OHSU VP for Administration and Board Secretary Connie Seeley as the latest UO Trustee, here: Seeley graduated…
Do you even know what they are? Do you care? Well, our well-paid strategic communicators do: Perhaps you need some brand standards training:
My initial reaction was “oh shit, this is going to be like Concur or the Faculty Tracking Software scheme, or Craig Ashford’s plan to save millions by centralizing all UO purchasing (say, anyone know what happened to that?).”
But I’ve been using it for about 2 months and it’s seamless. Log on as usual and if I haven’t used that service in a week my phone beeps, I hit the green button, and I’m in. Strangely you don’t need it for Duckweb, so anyone who has the 6 number password I’ve used for the past 10 years can still change my students’ grades and direct deposit my paycheck to their bank, but I assume that will be part of Duo eventually:
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Gosh, it’s almost like the Ducks are the only thing our university’s Board of Trustees cares about. From the database at https://www.athleticdirectoru.com/articles/2020-fbs-athletics-directors-compensation-survey/ This table ignores the retention bonuses UO gives Mullens – $200K this year, increasing to $1M in 2024.
President Michael Schill has been very, very good to his upper admins. Faculty & staff, not so much.
Relative to other “Very High Research” public universities. I think this is what is commonly called “administrative bloat” – though these are salaries, not numbers. 2018 means the 2018-19 FY. From the Chronicle of Higher Education, here. (You may need to create a free login with your UO id). The…
Thanks to an anonymous correspondent for forwarding this: [pdf-embedder url=”https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID-19-Resumption-Planning-Dashboard-Smartsheet.com_.pdf” title=”COVID-19 Resumption Planning Dashboard – Smartsheet.com”]
The usual deadline for these reports is 5.5 months after the end of the fiscal year, which for the Foundation would be Nov 15, 2019. But no, the Foundation has already made 2 requests for 3 month extensions, which would have made the report due today. And now they are…
That would be the OSU Board of Trustees. The UO Board will meet June 4th. No agenda has been distributed yet. Public Meetings Notice May 15, 2020 The Oregon State University Board of Trustees will meet on Friday, May 29, to consider the university’s operating budget for the coming fiscal…