10/22/2011: Want to know how much the Oregon State University Foundation gets in donations for athletics? No problem, check page 16 of the the Council for Aid to Education’s “Voluntary Support of Education” survey for OSU, 2011: Want to know how much the UO Foundation gets? Too bad, they leave…
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10/22/2011: The UO Foundation’s job is managing funds from UO donors, investing the UO endowment, and disbursing the funds to UO for scholarships, etc. They’ve just released their 31 page annual report, here. I’m no accounting professor, but people have earned tenure showing the correlation between glossy pictures in annual…
10/20/2011: Institutional Research reports that last year the UO Foundation spent ~$6 million on Academic, merit, and need scholarships. Puts that $3.2 million overhead subsidy for athletics into perspective. Oh yeah, the Foundation spent almost $9 million on athletic scholarships. And of course the athletic department spent $2 million of…
7/13/2011 update: I’ve written UO Public Records Officer Liz Denecke asking her to forward *all* the agreements, and I copied Dennis Galvan and John Manotti. Still no reply. Maybe it makes sense for UO to cut deals with corrupt politicians (as with Pernsteiner for example) but not in secret. 7/12/2011:…
7/10/2011: Presumably Ms Funk has an innocent explanation, which may or may not be revealed when they put out their 2010-2011 annual report. Or maybe they blew all the donor money on their salaries, the Duck Athletic Fund, Bellotti’s payoff, and their new palace next to Matt Court. (click…
7/8/2011: This is hilarious – from Ken Goe in the Oregonian. For years the UO Foundation has been little more than a money laundering operation for the Duck Athletic Fund. And all of a sudden the Chairman of the Board of Trustees is “concerned”? … So, trustees were caught flat-footed…
but instead Dave Frohnmayer went to OUS and took $10 million of our bonding authority to build a new alumni center, with fancy offices for the UO Foundation and convenient underground parking for their overpaid CEOs. The Foundation is still trying to raise the rest of the $29 million cost…
5/17/2011: The UO Foundation has finally submitted its 2009 IRS 990 form. This covers the FY from July 1 2009 to June 30 2010. That’s right, the most recent data the foundation will release is almost a year old. Download here. The IRS reporting requirements are tightening though, and this…
4/28/2011: You can make quite a bit of money in academia, as long as your job does not involve teaching students or doing research. We wrote last year about UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s big raise: As GC, Melinda Grier had been paid $184,710 – this was after 12 years…
4/27/2014: That would be in North Dakota. The SPLC has the story here. 5/26/2011: University foundations to follow open records law In California, that is. The UO Foundation is no fan of transparency. Last year they actually went to Attorney General Kroger and procured a special ruling exempting them from…
3/2/2011: In testimony at the legislature yesterday President Lariviere raised the stakes and then called Pernsteiner’s bluff, adding a 5% in-state tuition cap to his new partnership plan. He can do this because his plan includes a fixed state contribution, large new private donations, and a workable strategy for getting…
The payout from their $410 million endowment is 3% a year, or about $12 million. Here’s where a bunch of it goes. They’ve got more recent data on their new president Paul Weinhold’s salary – but he won’t release it. I’m guessing $350,000, $380,000 with benefits.
2/24/2011: and more transparency from the UO Foundation, here: Donations to the University’s athletic department in the form of outright gifts has increased by more than 200 percent in the last 10 years, while outright gifts to academics have remained stagnant, according to a recent Emerald article (“Athletic hype draws…
2/7/2011: People have been asking how giving at UO compares with other schools. The comparison group is the 54 public universities, Carnegie high or very high research research, with from 10K to 30K students, reporting to CAE. For the 2009-2010 academic year donations for UO athletics were 357% of the…
2/7/2011: The UO Foundation has refused to say much about their operations, to the point of hiring an attorney last year to get them an exclusion from the public records law. Nice try – I’m no economist, but I know a few things about finding data. No wonder they’ve been…