Ballooning OU Administration

Let me draw your attention to a blog over at the University of Oregon that's garnering some attention: UO Matters. An anonymous blog, it is mainly directed at shining a light on the UO administration. The posts there are not directly germane to AAUP's bargaining with Portland State, but given the interconnectivity between OUS schools and the budget cuts we're about to be asked to make, it is certainly worth a gander. Take a look at a post from last week, where the blogger charts administrative creep:

So, in less than 3 years UO's core central admin has gone from 2 people earning a total of about $350,000 to:

• $320,000 Jim Bean, Provost
• $212,000 Frances Dyke, VP for Finance
• $170,000 new VP for helping VP for Finance Frances Dyke
• $177,000 Russ Tomlin, VP for Academic Affairs
• $181,000 Robin Holmes, VP for Student Affairs
  
• $124,000 John Moseley, Spec Asst to Provost Bean (that's the pay for 1/2 time)
• $99,000 Lorraine Davis, Spec Asst. to Pres and Provost (")

Totals $1,283,000 before we talk benefits, secretaries, staff, fancy offices, ... (We are omitting jobs such as VP's for Research, Information, etc which have not changed.)

On Friday, the Oregon legislature will issue the revised budget numbers, expected to be very grim. They will certainly ask universities to cut staff. One wonders what proportion of the cuts will land on administrators versus teaching and research staff and academic professionals.