I’ve always said that the UO administration could end this muckraking website any time they wanted to, simply by being honest and transparent. A quick glance at the public records log will convince you that our Johnson Hall leadership is not there yet. However, if current trends continue, UO M will…
Posts tagged as “Around the O”
Very interesting story, here: … A significant gift from Aisha Almana, a UO graduate, hospital executive and prominent feminist, will create new international opportunities in education and global health at the University of Oregon. The Aisha Almana Global Health Program will provide scholarships for Saudi women to study global health…
Now that’s the last thing I expected from “AroundtheOops”. Has this whole damn university suddenly gone pinko? Where’s Sharon Rudnick when we need her? It sure didn’t take Kyle Henley and Greg Bolt long to make UO’s Official Organ way more interesting. Essential, even. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be cutting into my…
“Around the O” is the official UO blog that Bob Berdahl, Scott Coltrane, and Jim Bean paid former Journalism Dean Tim Gleason to start, to counteract the baleful influence of UO Matters: Gleason took the money, but he didn’t deliver: But now it’s all good. Instead of Gleason, UO has a new…
"Around the O" spam costs ~$107,000. Gottfredson’s calendar costs $103. 12/31/2013: UO Matters more popular than Around the O for 2013 Here’s a little hint for former UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, now getting $218,524 a year to advise UO on “academic messaging”. While UO’s official “Around the O” blog…
7/26/2013: “Around the O” releases details on Gottfredson’s official calendar. Just kidding, it’s a puff piece about his trip to Fort Rock: Participants in this year’s tour included UO President Michael Gottfredson and his wife, Karol; Interim Provost Scott Coltrane and his wife, Wendy; Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and her…
Official UO “Around the O” blogger Joe Mosley was kind enough to share his Google Analytics from the first 3 weeks in January with me. Not looking good for UO Matters, though our readers have got AtO beat 9,269 to zero on comments. Around the O: UO Matters:
I sort of like UO’s official “Around the O” blog. Lots of endearing pictures of our UO administrators, and the occasional informative post about campus events. But I hear complaints about the weekly spam they send to everyone, offering coffee cups and iPads for answering trivia questions. So a couple…
Fees for reporters, subsidies for propaganda
7/15/2013: We’ve written before about the $104K cost of “Around the O”. Here are two much worse examples of how UO is making work more difficult for real reporters, while spending public money on what amounts to propaganda. I suppose you could argue this is good for UO in the…