I can hear the champagne corks popping in Johnson Hall. Jennifer McCall tried hard to improve the state’s transparency problems and had some success. Apparently a little too much success. From Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek: … In a separate letter to Brown, McCall was more forthcoming about the reason for…
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At least I assume that’s what he’s complaining about. From the RG here: “I’m committed to working with our graduate students, with our classified staff, and faculty,” Schill said. “I do worry as we move forward in these contract negotiations about the type of behavior we saw at our last…
Trump’s PR flacks warn administrators not to contradict him about the Alabama Hurricane forecast: Schill’s PR flacks warn administrators not to contradict him about the LERC and Museum budget cuts:
A new PNAS paper concludes: … Comparing passive lectures with active learning using a randomized experimental approach and identical course materials, we find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. We show that this negative correlation is caused in part by the…
Budget crisis? That’s just for the academic side. The heavily subsidized Duck athletic program is paying Nevada $650K. From the USAToday database here.
From reporter Michael Tobin in the Emerald, here: … In addition to being out of compliance with federal rules, the audit also found that some of the department’s firearms lack acquisition records. Of the 121 firearms UOPD acquired since 2012, 18 did not have records documenting their acquisition. Of the 18…
Follow Emerald Reporter Ryan Nguyen on twitter at https://twitter.com/ryanjjnguyen. It sounds like an interesting meeting – maybe a little too interesting for our bosses: Schill encourages those in the community, including labor unions, to be honest, transparent and respectful. He adds that we don’t need to be disrespectful when you…
About $23K each. Most of that will come from regular UO undergraduate students’ tuition payments, to discount the tuition of mostly out-of-state law school students: According to the terms of this 2014 MOU the law school was to get a temporary bailout from UO’s general fund, peaking at $3M, then…
It seems that outsourcing is not exactly the cost saver that he’d promised: But that doesn’t seem to have hurt his salary: His budget increase would fund a 10% raise for the GTFF.
Here: In calling for the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission to reconsider its prioritization of science, technology, engineering, and math subjects in how it distributes state funding to state universities (“Oregon shortchanges the liberal arts. What the HECC?”), The Register-Guard editorial board misses several critical points about the existing funding…
The UO boosters who broke up OUS with SB270 have not delivered on their promises. They know the legislature isn’t going to give them more taxpayer money without more control. Our SEIU staff union is now in the midst of negotiating a new contract with Oregon’s public universities, and they’ve…
UO Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms has buried the agendas in pdf’s, to make it hard to see what our board is up to. I’ve reformatted them as html below. Among the items that our board will not be discussing in public: UO’s current budget crisis and administrative bloat UO’s future…
The Board of Trustees is meeting this week, and Chairman Chuck Lillis is obsessed with the idea that UO’s faculty are overpaid deadwood. So I’ve prepared this helpful Spreadsheet of Excellence. As a bonus I added another 20 excellent faculty at the bottom to get it to 120, to offset…
https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20190901/oregon-shortchanges-liberal-arts-what-hecc
Auburn is a university in Alabama – I looked it up – and last I checked UO is in Oregon. The game is in Texas. That’s a lot of travel. Does anyone know how to estimate the carbon impact of an event like this? I googled a bit but didn’t…