RG story here, audit report here.
It’s too bad that Secretary of State Kate Brown’s audit focused on low paid staff and OA’s instead of on UO’s central administrators, where the big money and big problems are.
The 2011 SOS audit of former President Dave Frohnmayer’s golden parachute retirement contract turned up some problems: http://sos.oregon.gov/Documents/audits/management/2011/580-2011-07-01.pdf
UO quickly broke the terms of the agreement that came out of her office’s 2009 audit of former Provost John Moseley’s retirement deal: https://uomatters.com/2009/08/moseley-gets-audited.html
And it’s not clear there’s been much follow-up on efforts to reform. Last I checked former Provost Jim Bean was getting paid over $200K a year, without a contract or defined job responsibilities: https://uomatters.com/2013/07/will-circle-be-unbroken-bean-has-no.html
Longtime administrator Lorraine Davis has a contract, but who knows what for? UO redacted her job duties: https://uomatters.com/2013/08/special-agent-lorraine-daviss-secret.html
And UO is also paying retired OUS administrator Susan Weeks $100K a year as a “Special Assistant to the President” but she’s not on the org chart or office listings. https://uomatters.com/2014/06/uo-deploys-stealth-administrator-to-work-with-trustees.html
Other administrators have been dismissed from UO, but apparently have been allowed to continue getting paid for many, many months.
And UO’s legal expenses seem totally out of control: https://uomatters.com/2014/06/hlgr-rudnick-matthews-making-bank-off-uo-legal-fees.html
Every OA is due timely notice by rule, so there is no mystery on why an administrator gets paid for up to 12 months after being dismissed from a position. the only unseemly aspect in my opinion is when the person is a highly paid senior administrator who also holds a tenured faculty position. One remedy is offer new senior administrators the option of one or the other, timely notice protection as an OA or the protection of their faculty appointment. our current system blurs those distinctions and leads to some of the various situations widely reported here, but there is nothing irregular about being paid during the timely notice period. ironically, one former VP tried to eliminate timely notice for O As and then took advantage of it.