3/25/2013. It’s been brought to my attention that I’ve been a bit too loose with the “UO’s administrators are overpaid” meme. There are a lot of UO OA’s that are certainly not fattening up at the Johnson Hall trough, and I apologize for lumping them together. Today the Chronicle published…
Posts tagged as “administrative bloat”
Updated with latest (last?) Beangram: March 20, 2013 TO: Officers of instruction, research and administrationFROM: Provost Jim BeanSUBJECT: Multi-year salary adjustment program update I am writing to provide an update regarding the multi-year salary adjustment program announced in my email of March 4, 2013. The University is moving forward…
3/20/2013 update. Seems like a good time to repost this classic on raises for UO administrators and the efforts JH has made to keep the process secret. You can read the WSJ on UO’s administrative bloat and listen to Bean and Frohnmayer bloviate about UO’s lean administration here.4/3/2012: More than…
We’re the 4th highest of 72 public “high research category” universities in the percentage of total spending that goes to administration. See the data here, story here. “Administrative spending includes management of the university including human resources, legal, financial, purchasing and marketing operations, among others.” UO spends 12% on this, the median university…
The RG reprints a Bloomberg report on the growing pushback from faculty, students, and parents angry at how universities are wasting their money: U.S. universities employed more than 230,000 administrators in 2009, up 60 percent from 1993, or 10 times the rate of growth of the tenured faculty, those with permanent…
9/25/2012: The RG’s Diane Dietz digs into the student debt situation, with a focus on UO. Some tidbits: The prisons’ share is $1.36 billion in the current two-year budget, compared with the $691 million for the entire, seven-school Oregon University System. Not clear if that includes direct state aid to…
From a very good piece by Hannah Hoffman in the Statesman Journal (She also had a recent story on PERS, and is now running the excellent “State Worker’s Blog“). The boom is consistent with enrollment growth. So, how much of the hiring is new faculty? You could ask our clueless provost…
That would be Susan Herbst, the new President of the University of Connecticut. From the Chronicle, which also describes similar plans by Iowa and Minnesota: Our power is always going to be in the faculty,” she says. “They’re the people with the ideas. I feel sometimes in higher education we’re…
5/28/2012: Back in November the RG editors criticized President Lariviere for the raises that brought down the Governor’s wrath, noting that fully 40% of the money was going to administrators: “Bad Politics, Good Policy: The UO invests its tuition money in (some) people” … The documents list “special equity raises”…
6/17/2012 update. Latest rumors say we will have ~25,200 students on campus next fall, that doctoral enrollment is flat at less than 1200 instead of the 1500 in the plan, and that there will be ~30 more tenure-track faculty, for a total of about 725 instead of the ~796 in…
2/17/2012: I wish that UO’s CFO would give the faculty a honest talk about UO’s current spending and that our Provost would give a consult with the faculty about UO’s future budgeting priorities. But Jim Bean and Frances Dyke have never given us a clear data-based presentation of where they…
2/16/2012: From the union organizer’s website here: How can faculty have a real voice in setting priorities? Thursday, February 16th4:00-5:30pm115 Lawrence Hear speakers address these critical areas: Howard Bunsis, a professor of accounting at Eastern Michigan University and Secretary-Treasurer of the AAUP Dr. Bunsis, an expert in the analysis of…
2/8/2012: Excellent story in the Chronicle on the Delta Cost Project on higher education, and their influence in the Obama administration and Congress. I started this blog back in 2009, after the furlough town hall where the administration tried to convince the faculty to take voluntary pay cuts. (They took…
1/25/2012: Back in Feb 2010 – almost 2 years ago – I wrote the overly optimistic post below, about Brad Shelton’s “New Budget Model”. The idea was that money should follow students – except for a tax for central admin expenditures. At the time the tax rate for Johnson Hall…
12/3/2011: My prediction of Jim Bean‘s term as UO president, if the rumors that the board will appoint him next week turn out to be true.