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Posts tagged as “38% admin expense ratio claim”

Bean corrects beangram

or maybe he’s correcting his December Senate speech. Or his January one? Or maybe his old claim that UO spends 38% of what our peers do on administration. Anyone know? Anyone trust his math? Believe his grammar? Amazed at his confusion between levels and changes? 1-25-13 Provost’s Message Colleagues: Several…

UO administrative bloat makes the Wall Street Journal

We’re the 4th highest of 72 public “high research category” universities in the percentage of total spending that goes to administration. See the data here, story here. “Administrative spending includes management of the university including human resources, legal, financial, purchasing and marketing operations, among others.” UO spends 12% on this, the median university…

UO’s finances

2/17/2012: I wish that UO’s CFO would give the faculty a honest talk about UO’s current spending and that our Provost would give a consult with the faculty about UO’s future budgeting priorities. But Jim Bean and Frances Dyke have never given us a clear data-based presentation of where they…

Which side are you on?

2/16/2012: From the union organizer’s website here: How can faculty have a real voice in setting priorities? Thursday, February 16th4:00-5:30pm115 Lawrence Hear speakers address these critical areas: Howard Bunsis, a professor of accounting at Eastern Michigan University and Secretary-Treasurer of the AAUP Dr. Bunsis, an expert in the analysis of…

RG on UO hiring: 26% more students, 9% more faculty, 36% more administrators.

10/23/2011: Very interesting RG story by Greg Bolt, on UO’s role in Lane County employment: Employment at the UO has grown across the board, with increases seen in nearly every job category. The university has more teachers, professors, administrators, clerical staff, laborers and technicians today than it did before the…

Nostalgic?

10/11/2011: I didn’t think so. The low point for UO was the April 2009 “Furlough Town Hall” where President Dave Frohnmayer, Provost Jim Bean, General Counsel Melinda Grier, and VPFA Frances Dyke tried to trick the faculty into agreeing to 5% pay reductions. Frohnmayer had just taken a $100,000 raise…

UO faculty pay sucks

4/19/2011: Stefan Verbano in the ODE has details. (Also see Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Read the comments if you dare.) One of the faculty union proponents, Anne McLucas, is quoted in the ODE: According to OUS data, upper-level administrative costs have risen 63 percent from 2006 to 2010, while…