Around the O has the report: … A recent estate pledge from Jim and his wife Mary — an estimated $5 million — is a step in the right direction. “This was a way to help out in return for what the school gave me,” said Rothwell, who worked 26 years…
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Around the O has the good news here: Thanks to a $16 million estate gift for scholarships, scores of high-achieving UO students on the path to becoming public school teachers will be spending less time worrying about debt and more time focused on becoming outstanding educators. The R.H. and Jane…
Diane Dietz has the good news in the RG here.
6/28/2016: UO gets $6M from Marin Community Foundation to endow family counseling and speech clinic. Andrew Theen has the good news in the Oregonian: “Our long-term vision is to expand the college’s clinic and capabilities to become the educational and social-services equivalent of a modern teaching hospital,” UO President Michael Schill said…
Update: More in Around the O, here. Andrew Theen has the good news on this generous gift to support basic science, in the Oregonian here: The $10 million gift is the largest to the university since President Michael Schill arrived on campus last July, and it comes as Schill has emphasized…
6/15/2014: Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here. These days a university president’s main job is fundraising, and Gottfredson is not doing well at it. While OSU just wrapped up a $1B academic fund drive, the Duck Athletic Fund continues to use the UO Foundation to launder tax…
12/7/2011: Allan Brettman of the Oregonian has a good piece: For donors like Lorry Lokey and Vinton “Slim” Sommerville, Lariviere’s ouster was a stunning blow that no amount of explanation of process and political niceties can soothe. “It’s the governor’s fault and I hope the voters remember this two years…
58/12/2011: from the Greg Bolt RG story: Almost two-thirds of the money raised during the 2010-11 fiscal year was for academics. Donations for academics totaled $73.3 million, and athletics donations totaled $43.6 million.
4/3/2011: Well at least someone around here is getting a raise. Must need it to match the extravagant style UO’s Development office administrators expect to become accustomed to in their new office palace. These people have no shame, spending donor money on this instead of research space, classrooms, faculty offices,…
7/14/2010: Inside Oregon has a puff piece on the new Alumni Center: The final beams and superstructure of the Cheryl Ramberg Ford and Allyn Ford Alumni Center were set in place recently by construction crews. … The four-story, 60,000-square-foot center — being built just west of the Matthew Knight Arena…