Materials should be posted here soon: http://trustees.uoregon.edu/node/26. Here’s hoping they’ve got some good news for the academic side to announce this time.
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2/18/2016: There are some good people on the UO board. You know they’re hoping the day will come when they can announce they’ve done something important for UO’s academic side. But that day is not today. Today Diane Dietz has yet another story on the effort and expense that UO’s leaders…
Updated with a letter in the ODE from a variety of student groups raising questions about the administration’s seriousness in consulting them about the tuition increases, here: University of Oregon campus community, On Jan. 4, a new term began for most students at the UO, and with that began another round…
Some highlights so far: UO has a lobbying effort underway to support Track Town’s efforts to get ~$30M in state money for the scandal-ridden 2021 IAAF track championships. To put this in perspective, UO gets about $60M a year from the state for academics. The claim is made that this $30M will…
The RG’s Diane Dietz has a good prequel, here: A proposal to offer students guaranteed tuition for four years, a plan for upgrading residence halls and a roundtable discussion on race relations are on the agenda when the University of Oregon Board of Trustees meets Wednesday and Thursday in Eugene.…
InsideHigherEd has the full report, here. Worth reading it all: How transparent should a public university governing board be? Politicians in a number of states, who often say they’re responding to concerns from constituents, have been calling for appointed or elected governing boards of their public colleges, universities and systems…
Just kidding. It looks like Kitzhaber’s office only cared about the race, gender, and age of nominees for UO’s new Board of Trustees: And making sure they had their own person on the board. Wait, the governor was worried he couldn’t get someone on the UO Board? Who’s in charge here? UO Foundation CEO…
10/26/2015: Noah McGraw has the news in the Emerald, here. The process was considerably more open than that which led to the appointment and reappointment of the faculty trustee, Susan Gary. Good for ASUO. Not sure if the legislature has confirmed this yet.
9/25/2015: UO Student Trustee Helena Schlegel resigns from Board on principle
Transparency, accountability, etc. Presumably this explains why UO faculty Trustee Susan Gary (Law), who was appointed with minimal input from faculty, and then reappointed with none, has suddenly started holding office hours. From the HECC docket, here:
10/10/2015: Apparently unaware of a basic statistical principle, Chuck Lillis and the BOT gave Mark Helfrich and AD Ron Mullens fat new contracts in February, just after the #2 BCS outcome. It will now cost about $15M to buy out Helfrich, although there’s a 50% discount if he doesn’t win at least six games in each of 2…
The September 10th live-blog is here. Live-video feed here. Noah McGraw’s ODE live-blog is here. Board docket is here. Summary of the Th and Fr board meetings: The good: The board is obviously very happy with President Schill, as they should be. There were no sneak attacks on faculty governance…
This is a work in progress. If you see anything interesting in the meeting material please post a comment. Live-blog for Sept 11th here.
Also see Reporter Noah McGraw’s post on the upcoming meetings in the Daily Emerald, here, and check his live-blog here.
Great news! The trustees are now live-streaming their meetings, here. Now if Kevin Reed will just fix the public records office, I can finally end this damn blog.
Highlights from Sept 10th:
As of 10:30, not much. The Exec committee agreed to tone down their counter-attack on free-speech on cheerleaders.
Slusher talks about Mariota center. Board tries to connect this to research, Slusher doesn’t bite – it’s about applying existing knowledge to winning games.
No serious questions about Hayward field tart-up.
OUS settles with SEIU, and Moffitt presents budget for 2015-16. Turns out she did have the money for faculty raises after all. What a surprise. She’s worried about 2016-17. What a surprise.
1:00PM, full board meeting. They’ve rearranged the room so as to keep the unwashed as far back as possible.
In public comments, students not excited about tuition guarantee idea.
More on how to deal with HECC, faculty hiring plans at bottom.
Page down for schedule and live-blog.
Reporter Noah McGraw has an excellent one in the Daily Emerald, here.
RG columnist Don Kahle is no economist, so he usually makes sense. Here’s his modest proposal on what to do about UO’s Duck problem – spin them off as an entertainment LLC. We trust unfettered economics to produce outcomes that are optimized. We want nothing more for our Ducks than optimized outcomes.…
I haven’t had time to dig through all the dockets, links below. If you see anything interesting please post a comment. Executive and Audit Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Finance and Facilities Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Academic and Student Affairs Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Meeting of…