4/8/2011: Date: April 8, 2011 5:31:06 PM PDTTo: Elizabeth Denecke , Public Records Requests Cc: Frances Dyke , …Subject: public records request, Huron report Hi Liz – The last amendment to the Huron contracts you sent me earlier this week says: A. The second to the last bullet point in…
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4/8/2011: A commenter suggests that these Huron invoices are not complete. We are on that. Since we have an active petition in with the Attorney General, we are expecting that we will get a quick answer from UO this time: Date: April 7, 2011 5:23:24 PM PDTTo: Elizabeth Denecke Cc:…
4/7/2011: It took a petition to Attorney General John Kroger to force the UO administration and Public Records Officer Liz Denecke to finally cough up these documents. No wonder. Our administration has blown about $1.5 million since last June – $130,000 a month – on a contract to administer UO’s…
At some point you start wondering what they are hiding. Maybe we really are paying $100,000 a month out of our ICC money? Maybe they didn’t put the contract out for bid? It would have been much simpler – and much more in the spirit of trust and transparency –…
4/4/2011: There are rumors that ORSA’s contract with Huron consulting is costing UO $250 an hour plus expenses for each of two consultants. Supposedly this includes round-trips back to their home base in Chicago on weekends. $100,000 a month by one account, or close to $1 million total so far.…
3/23/2011: Here are some of UO’s more expensive consulting contracts. This is old data from the 09-10 FY. More on the way.
10/6/2010: From the announcement of UO’s summer research awards program, below: “It is anticipated that up to twenty awards in the amount of $4,500 each will be granted.” That’s as much as $90,000! This could increase UO’s research expenditures from 63.25% of average to 63.33%! Meanwhile, in the past 3…
9/28/2010: The NRC graduate rankings are out, Chronicle.com has a spiffy interactive tool, probably only accessible from campus. Many UO programs do very well – even without adjusting for shitty faculty pay and the fact that UO research support is 63% of average. The new quantitative methodology adopted by NRC…
9/27/2010: The NRC rankings of US graduate programs have been released to UO administrators and the press but are embargoed for public release. Sorry, we took an oath. The release has been delayed for years by a cage fight over statistical methods, and the data will be from 2005-6. Still,…
9/8/2010: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a story on the latest results on research spending at Oregon universities: The average UO professor brings in a lot more than I would have guessed! I wonder that the median is. We’ve reported before that UO’s research expenditures on a per student…
8/3/2010: The 19 AAU schools with the lowest federal research funding, out of the 63 members: And we already know full prof salaries are 84% of our peers. So where does UO excel? In the percentage of our budget that goes to Central Administration. They cost us 96% of the…
7/30/2010: More from “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability” and their online database of the federally required reports to IPEDS. Looking at UO’s spending per student FTE compared to Carnegie Public Research university averages, for 2008. We spend: $2,347 on Central administration. 96% of the average…
7/23/2010: Check the comments for an interesting take on UO history, from an old man: … Can such “Oregon values” be resurrected? Old Man hopes so, but more Faculty Push will be required since it is in the eternal nature of things that some administrators will try to arrange things…
7/15/2010: We’ve written before about the chaos at ORSA. Paula Roberts is now gone, and apparently ORSA is now being run by Moira Kiltie and 2 consultants from Huron Consulting: Tim Patterson and Marisa Zuskar. On the ORSA staff website here. Rumor is Frances Dyke is paying Huron $250 an…
update from Anonymous: It is a sad day at the University of Oregon when an administrator with the integrity and character of Rich Linton decides it’s time to leave. As Roast Duck says, he is a classy guy. While significantly elevating the profile of research, Rich always worked toward the…