12/29/2016 repost: Thought I’d celebrate the upcoming new year with some reposts from UO’s past: 4/17/2012 update: Steve Duin of the Oregonian wrote some good stuff supporting Lariviere’s New Partnership. But he’s not so happy with UO on this issue and has some great quotes. 4/17/2012: The short version: UO’s…
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10/15/2014: Thought I’d repost this email showing that it was current Interim GC Doug Park who sat on the public records requests which eventually led to the firing of Melinda Grier. Park seems to be at it again, with the help of Dave Hubin. The PR Office is using fees,…
10/2/2014: Seems like a good time to repost this: 11/29/2013: Every year the state runs a Charitable Fund Drive for employees. You know the drill. You get a few emails from your department head, asking you to sign up for payroll deductions to support community groups like the United Way,…
From http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/dino-discovery:
11/30/2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/sports/ncaafootball/television-revenue-fuels-a-construction-boom-in-the-pac-12.html
11/29/2013: Too close to call. The Ducks spend 61% more on athletics and 19% more on our bloated central administration, but the Beavers spend 100% more on research. IPEDS data from: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/971644/uomatters/Football%20comparisons/UO.pdfhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/971644/uomatters/Football%20comparisons/OSU.pdf Helfrich contract here – maybe this slim win will keep the Duck boosters from blowing $6.4M on buying his…
11/27/2013: Jeff Mapes has the story in the Oregonian: The court upheld a ballot title that reads: Allows non-union member public employees receiving required union representation to refuse to share representation costs. I’m no economic theorist, but in theory the wording shouldn’t matter – the incentives are the same. But…
11/24/2013: UO saved some big bucks yesterday. Yes, we’ll owe AD Rob Mullens another $50K if the Ducks play in any bowl game at all – contract here. But we’ll save maybe $250K on Helfrich – almost enough to cover the Scott Coltrane / Lorraine Davis increase in the Jock…
11/19/2013: That would be SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi, asking for guidance from the CA State Chancellor’s office. InsideHigherEd.com reports from their Senate: “A series of conflicts over the last year has highlighted issues related to communication and transparency, has opened serious rifts in our shared sense of community, and has contributed…
11/18/2013: Insidehighered has a report on the brief tenure of Robert Sternberg as President at Wyoming. Hired by the board to make change, he did, stepping on a lot of toes in the process, to the point he could no longer run the place. This is apparently not uncommon for…
11/17/13 update: A commenter points out that I was misinformed. UO just played the U of Utah, not USU. Whatever. I’ve added the UU data.
11/15/13: That would be Robert Sternberg, at the University of Wyoming. Insidehighered.com has the report. He had support from the Caspar newspaper (thanks, commenter): Sternberg argued that he’s gotten a bum rap for firing too many people too fast. He pointed to the fact that he has asked for two resignations:…
10/29/13: In the Oregonian: I remember walking in from fall camp practice and talking to my teammates about how similar our lives were to the TV series Spartacus. We were slaves. We were paid enough to live, eat, and train… And nothing more. We went out on the field where…
10/29/2013: That would be SMU, back in the free-market 1980’s: The NCAA cartel came down hard on them, since every dollar going to a player is a dollar that won’t go them, the athletic directors and coaches, and Faculty Athletics Representatives like UO’s Jim O’Fallon. But now the NCAA is…
10/24/2013: Duck PR flack Rob Moseley has the story – a pretty good one – with some insight into the effort it takes to turn an athletic scholarship into an actual education.