5/19/13: From http://ous.edu/state_board/meeting/dockets, the March 31 Quarterly Management Report. Free UO Matters coffee cup to UO Controller Kelly Wolf if he will explain the extra $99M in income that popped up this year. Anyway, it looks like reserves were up again last quarter. In March Moffitt walked out on the faculty…
Posts tagged as “Finances”
9/10/2010: VP for Budget and Planning Brad Shelton has a new website for his new Budget Model. http://budgetmodel.uoregon.edu. We just got the news, but it looks like another big step forward for transparency at UO. I particularly like the no bullshit FAQ. Example: Why would you use a budget system…
5/15/2010: Two news reports about Pres Lariviere’s reform plan. Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian’s story could not be much more negative, ending on this note: But neither sitting state Treasurer Ted Wheeler nor his Democratic opponent in Tuesday’s election, Sen. Rick Metsger, D-Welches, appear supportive of using the state’s borrowing…
5/12/2010: President Lariviere sends this to the faculty yesterday: “I am writing to share the University of Oregon’s white paper, “Preserving Our Public Mission Through a New Partnership with the State.” Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story on the proposal and reactions to the proposal. I took…
1/15/2010: This David Steves RG story is the most honest I’ve seen yet on what’s going on with state spending: Question: What’s really going on with the state budget? One side says politicians in Salem behind the tax increase just increased state spending by $4.7 billion. The other side says…
12/29/2009: The Budget and Resource Planning people have begun posting pretty detailed expenditure reports at http://brp.uoregon.edu/analysis_fmr Apparently Brad Shelton, Kelly Wolf and Laura Hubbard are the people to thank for this big step forward for financial transparency.
12/21/2007: Oregon State economist William Jaeger has produced an interesting report on Oregon’s taxes, demonstrating that they are well below the national average. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Also interesting is this study on happiness by state (of residence, not of mind). Oregon is #30.
12/7/2009: Interesting op-ed from insidehighered.com on the UC systems troubles. The claim is that the universities are exaggerating the extent of the problem: Even with the revelation that many of the top earners are administrators and that there are now more administrators in the UC system than faculty members, many…
11/5/2009: From CJ Ciaramella in the Emerald: What was supposed to be a one-time surcharge tacked onto last spring term’s tuition has now become a permanent increase to University tuition, and it’s costing students more than they bargained for. The surcharge, $150 for residents and $350 for non-residents, was approved…
10/31/2009: Verbatim from Jack Bog’s Blog: Red flag goes up at OHSU The new chief financial officer at OHSU has quit after just two weeks on the job. Apparently it has something to do with family issues, but given all the turnover in management on Pill Hill lately, the situation…