That $60,000 could have just about paid the annual salaries of a couple of non-tenure-track instructors, you  know, the folks who actually do the basic teaching around the campus.  Yes, the ones the UO is laying off now to ""save money.""

This is getting hard to take.  As one who has loved  and been involved with that university for decades,  I hate to see what's going on there--it seems an elite group  of administrators has taken over, under the guidance  of an independent Board of Trustees which was supposed to solve our problems but, under the control of the uber-rich, mostly seems to have made things worse.  But I still see it as a good, if troubled institution.  Michael Dreiling's recent guest column  for United Academics had some worthwhile ideas.