Just kidding, he’s decided to bet UO’s future on the same failed policies that got us to this point. Today’s Open Mike: Dear University of Oregon colleagues, Conversations I regularly have with students, faculty, staff, donors, and community members often go one of two very different ways. The vast majority…
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Steve Berkowitz has the story in USA Today, here. $3.5M for Larry Scott – not bad for running what the IRS still considers to be a non-profit organization: The conference reported just over $374 million in total revenue for a fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 — a figure that includes…
8/19/2013 update: “Around the O” reports UO raised $200M this FY in donations. It’s difficult to tell from the press release, and as explained below UO Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold has refused to release breakdowns, but it appears that about 57% of the donations to the Foundation went to the jocks.…
8/19/2013: In an Op-Ed in the RG: The debates surrounding the opening of the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex are not much different than the ones that have been waged since the University of Oregon Athletic Department decided to ramp up operations after the unexpected trip to the Rose Bowl in 1995. The…
It’s not Oregon’s Frohnmayer and Kilkenny, it’s Pennsylvania’s Corbett and Sandusky. But the expensive fallout from Frohnmayer’s secret jock deals are on Gottfredson’s plate, according to the notes from his meeting with the heads: Q: Has UO considered taxing the athletics program?A: Evaluating relationship with athletic program 10/3/2012
declares he will not support Autzen Stadium expansion or new football offices unless boosters can show they will also give to the academic side. Register Guard story here. Wait, never mind, that was President Paul Olum in 1985. Thanks to the interesting Benzduck site for the history. 9/2/2012.
If so he’ll do it from the “Presidential Skybox”, which costs UO’s academic side $375,000 a year. We pay the jocks because Dave Frohnmayer put his signature to this secret deal two weeks before he stepped down as UO President: … This was after Kilkenny had contributed some serious money to Frohnmayer’s…
Presumably this includes the $5 million Robin Jaqua gift, which Rob Mullens swiped for the Jock Box back in January. Story today from Inside Oregon: Overall, giving in fiscal 2012 totaled $51,737,551 in support of academics, mainly for current purposes and endowments. Athletics programs received $55,950,231, which included significant support for expansion of…
Read Interim Provost Jim Bean’s 2010 op-ed in the Oregonian, defending the decision to spend $1.83 million a year of regular students’s tuition money on the athlete only Jacqua Center for Student Athletes – or as the NY Times calls it, the Jock Box. Then read about how Duck AD Rob…
that coaches need private hot tubs with waterproof video displays. Diane Dietz of the RG on UO’s newest football palace. FWIW, AD Rob Mullens never completed the report to OUS on how he’d cover the operating expenses. My suggestion – cut baseball. $76,274,142 in expenses for crap like this, but ask…
2/14/2011: Stefan Verbano of the ODE quotes former UO Business School Dean and current marketing Prof Dennis Howard – strange, he doesn’t look like a revolutionary threat to the established order – on the link between athletic contributions and the real University of Oregon: “It’s called a donation or a…
1/30/2011: In a NY Times story on the UConn donor who pulled his sports donations when the AD didn’t ask him who to hire as coach. Professor Earl from English Lit, on Oregon. “The world thinks of us as a sports franchise,” he added. “They don’t care what we do…
1/4/2011: From Charles Clotfelter – an economist – in the Washington Post: With the exception of the 80 percent rule for gifts that enable a donor to buy tickets, all these donations are subject to the same tax subsidy we reserve for charitable and educational institutions like hospitals, food pantries,…