UO Matters

That would be New Mexico’s Attorney General. The Albuquerque Journal has the report here: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The state Attorney General’s Office dispatched special agents to the University of New Mexico Foundation headquarters Wednesday as part of a longstanding investigation initiated after revelations UNM used public funds for an overseas…

$700M Maybe $50m [see comments] on the Cover Oregon website, $200M on green energy tax credits, and now $5M on a sawmill scam, as the Oregonian’s Gordon Friedman reports today. Perhaps his reporting will help trigger a criminal investigation. Or perhaps the Oregon DOJ will keep looking the other way: ……

Obviously this story is not from the University of Oregon, where GC Kevin Reed’s policy is to charge reporters – even student reporters – for documents. Even documents he won’t release after the students have paid, and where VP for Communications Kyle Henley spends his communications budget on propaganda to…

Gosh, and I’d alway thought NCAA athletics was the last bastion of honesty and integrity. The story is from former Oregonian reporter Rachel Bachman, who turned her reporting on various Duck scandals into a WSJ job. Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week has a recap for those who don’t want to go behind…

It was a disappointing year for UO fundraising, although you’d never know that from the misinformation Kyle Henley’s PR flacks put out on Around the O: The University of Oregon posted another successful year of contributions during the fiscal year ending June 30 for a total of $131.03 million. More…

Just kidding, this is the NCAA. The Toledo Blade reports that Rob Mullens is paying Bowling Green $900K to give the Ducks a season opener win, and Vegas has the Ducks by 32 points. The $28K per point will come out of UO’s academic budget, one way or another, and it…

Thanks to a helpful reader for the link. A snippet: These last few years have been tough for higher education. Enrollment is down year after year, state funding increases have stalled even as costs skyrocket, and most people don’t have much confidence overall in American colleges and universities. The standard explanation within academia for these…

A helpful reader notes this opinion piece from PNAS, asking if Knight Campus is a potential example of it: Opinion: Expansion fever and soft money plague the biomedical research enterprise, Henry R. Bourne Academic biomedical science has had both a long boom in its funding and a subsequent scary bust. From…

Just kidding, they don’t care about that kind of diversity. The Office of Equity and Inclusion has spent millions encouraging UO to hire faculty who look different but think the same. Apparently they’ve been very effective. Back in 2006 I matched the list of UO tenure track faculty with the…