Budget Crisis? Not at UO’s very charitable foundation: $453K Paul Weinhold $469K Jay Namyet Back in 2015 the UO Foundation was paying Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold $345K and CIO Jay Namyet $340K. Three years later Weinhold is making $453K, and Namyet $469K.\ By my math that’s a 35% increase, or…
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One of the problems with President Schill’s top-down management style is that it’s hard to find enough yes-men and women to fill an org chart. In the past year we’ve lost Provost Banavar, CAS Dean Marcus, Dean of Libraries Lim, and Executive VP Pratt. (My apologies to any others I…
Budget crisis? Not for the Ducks and their special subsidies. In the RG here: New coach Mark Wasikowski confirmed that the Ducks plan to install a new turf on the baseball field and bring the fences in about 20 feet, but it is uncertain if those changes will be done…
WaPo columnist Sally Jenkins, here: Appearances matter — to some people. But apparently not to those paunchy administrators who cheat captive young people to the tune of seven figures, known as collegiate athletic directors. If you think this assessment is too harsh, check out the Ritz-Carlton oceanside resort where the…
That’s the rumor from down at the faculty club. More soon.
From Gina Scalpone in the Emerald. Two other lawsuits from Christoph Lindner’s brief tenure as Dean of CoD are ongoing.
An excellent article by reporter Brady Lim, read it all here. A few snippets: If passed, the bill would allow student-athletes at California’s 24 colleges and universities to be paid for “the use of their name, image and likeness.” In other words, student-athletes at these schools would be allowed to…
From a generally reliable source. The UO staff are in the same bargaining unit as staff at all Oregon public universities, so they bargain a system-wide contract. In the past, UO has pressed for more generous contracts than the other universities wanted (if you call paying people for their work…
You wouldn’t know it from Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms minimalist website, but rumor has it the Sept 5-6 meeting of our Board of Trustees will be in Portland. Classes in Eugene start October 1. Maybe they have something urgent to vote on, like another round of raises for the coaches…
No they didn’t. The Administration *bargains* with the GTFF. The Mediator *mediates* between the Administration and the GTFF. That’s pretty much the whole point of mediation. And while I’m on it, why is the Administration still claiming they are “the university?”. I thought Frank Stahl won that one. And while…
Specifically philosophy professors, but the argument is more general. In the NYT here: … Whether you call it a “petition,” an “open letter” or a “public statement,” this type of document is distinguished by the fact that after stating and arguing for a position, it lists the names of people…
That’s the rumor from yesterday’s match down at the Faculty Club’s polo grounds. Lillis’s 2nd 3-year term as chair of UO’s Board of Trustees is up in December. Raymund is an Econ grad, a wealthy self-made businessman, the current chair of Paul Weinhold’s secretive sports-obsessed UO Foundation board, and a…
The Eugene Weekly’s Bob Keefer pans the Knight Campus’s still under-construction “bridge to nowhere”, here. While I agree it’s not up to the architectural excellence of, say, the Hayward Field Phallus, it will provide the perfect location for students and union members to hang protest banners from – with none…
That would be at OHSU. From the Portland Business Journal, here: In a bizarre turn of events, Oregon Health & Science University President Dr. Danny Jacobs apologized after the head of human resources resigned amid a Twitter trolling incident targeting an employee union. Patrick Frengle had made anti-union posts on…
Of course I’m kidding. We’re in a budget crisis. So the Administration is going to renovate administrator offices in Johnson Hall. What a surprise. RFP here: