1/22/2012: Lara Pappano has a long article in the NYT‘s education life magazine: “It’s become so important on the college campus that it’s one of the only ways the student body knows how to come together,” said Allen Sack, president-elect of the Drake Group, a faculty network that lobbies for…
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1/202012: From The Business of College Sports: We spent $922,632, about $150,000 more than the next highest, Washington. Presumably the $25,000 Chip Kelly paid to Willie Lyles is in there somewhere- though maybe not, as it was originally hidden as “library and research materials”. Also not sure about the $150,000…
1/4/2012: One way to build a better university would be to invest in academics – as Richard Lariviere’s New Partnership proposed. Or there’s Dave Frohnmayer’s trickle down theory – sell out to the jocks and pretend. From the RG editorial a few days ago: Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer has no…
1/3/2011: That’s the University of Pennsylvania Faculty Committee on Athletics, and the date is 1918. The coach didn’t do enough character building. Plus he lost the Rose Bowl, to Oregon. When did university faculties give up our control over athletics? Why? The Chronicle has a story on the efforts of…
12/29/2011: Review article From Steve Weiberg in USA Today discusses how the faculty and administration have lost control at many schools. It will be interesting to see if Bob Berdahl attempts to deal with this at UO, or passes it on to the permanent president. The article raises an interesting…
12/22/2011: Now it’s in Time too: Oregon parents, beware: the Ducks are 11-2 this season, and playing in the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl against the University of Wisconsin, the sixth-best party school in the nation according to Playboy (in 2010, the Badgers ranked third). For transcripts, this game might be…
12/20/2011: That’s the ESPN headline for this paper from 3 UO economists, using data from UO students: The gist: Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?∗ Jason M. Lindo Isaac D. Swensen Glen R. Waddell American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Abstract: We consider the relationship between collegiate-football success and…
12/15/2011: I’m no anthropologist, but I think the theory is that gifts don’t mean much when the giver has first tried to sell them, and failed, and then tries to sell them to you for half-off. Email from the UO Athletic department to UO employees: Oregon DUCKMAIL The Official Source…
12/11/2011: Under the NCAA cartel, none of his players will get a dime. Fascinating, carefully researched story by Ted Sickinger in the Oregonian on how Mike Bellotti came to be collecting $490,000 a year in PERS, most of which will ultimately be paid by Oregon taxpayers: The statutes governing PERS…
11/17/2011: Here at UO Matters our sports editors focus on the highly effective strategies that UO Athletic Director Rob Mullens and his “Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration” Jamie Moffitt have been using to squeeze every last dime from UO students and the academic side, to pay…
11/14/2011: Moody’s reports that Penn State bonds will be reviewed for non-repayment risk, because of the Coach Sandusky child rape scandal: New York, November 11, 2011 — Moody’s Investors Service has placed the Aa1 revenue bond rating of Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) on review for possible downgrade to assess…
11/8/2011: In a week, Penn State has gone from being an example (the only example?) of a school that did college sports right – no scandals, high graduation rates, money raised for academics – to a sordid sex scandal involving a coach molesting a 10-year-old in the team’s shower room.…
Pultitzer prize winning civil rights historian Taylor Branch, interviewed by Stephen Colbert on 10/26/2011 The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Taylor Branch www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive
10/28/2011:Former UO reporter Allie Grasgreen has the story in Insidehighered.com. It’s way too little for the big revenue football players, and arguably too much for the non-revenue players. Should cost the UO AD about $1,000,000. The real cost will be if the courts then decide this makes the player’s employees…