Oregon University System lacks grasp of how professors work, state audit says - Bill Graves, The Oregonian

The Oregon University System does not have a grasp of how much time professors spend in the classroom, and less than one-fifth of its budget goes to instruction. In the 2009-10 school year, the university system spent $373 million -- 18.4 percent -- of its $2.03 billion budget "in salaries and benefits for faculty, adjunct faculty and graduate assistants whose work focused on instruction and university-funded research activities." State officials say that raises questions about where the other $1.7 billion was spent. The system cannot determine whether its professors and instructors could be better and more efficiently used without getting better information on how they are spending their time.