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FOI #24-021 (01-21-24, 7:15 pm) - Subject - SFA DEAN SEARCH CONTRACTS and OFFERS
Name -
Affiliation -
Please disclose the search committee's notes and minutes from all meetings, correspondence, discussions, and shared documents or files on the finalist candidates brought to campus to interview for the SFA Dean position.
In addition please include any former offers/contracts made to any of the finalist candidates, and the related notes, correspondence, shared documents or files regarding the negotiation with a specific focus on information that resulted in the search not yielding a new dean by January 16th 2024.
WCW requests a copy of the following documents in relation to NIH grant R01DC014044, “Towards Clinical Translation of Penetrating Multisite Device for Cochlear Nucleus”, to the University of Connecticut:
1. All IACUC-approved protocols; including attachments, reviews, and amendments.
2. Acquisition and disposition records of all cats held for or used in experiments.
3. Complete veterinary records of all cats held for or used in experiments.
4. Complete raw and unedited videos, edited videos, and photographs.
5. Animal welfare noncompliance incident reports with associated documents.
FOI #24-019 (01-18-24, 3:21 pm) - Subject - Athletics
Name - Mike Vorkunov
Affiliation - The Athletic
Hello. I am requesting the following as part of an open records request with the University of Connecticut. Thank you.
— Any email from or to Geno Auriemma mentioning "women's TV deal" or "TV deal" or "NCAA" from March 1, 2023 through January 18, 2024
— Any email from or to athletic director David Benedict mentioning "women's TV deal" or "TV deal" or "NCAA" from March 1, 2023 through January 18, 2024
— Any email from or to Annie Fiorvanti mentioning "women's TV deal" or "TV deal" or "NCAA" from March 1, 2023 through January 18, 2024
— Any email from or to Jason Butikofer mentioning "women's TV deal" or "TV deal" or "NCAA" from March 1, 2023 through January 18, 2024
— A copy of the NCAA championships media rights contract between the NCAA and ESPN, that would have been shared with the University of Connecticut or a member of its athletic department.
— A copy of the NCAA championships media rights contract between the NCAA and ESPN (effective Sept. 1, 2024), that would have been shared with the University of Connecticut or a member of its athletic department.
— A copy of the NCAA championships media rights contract between the NCAA and ESPN currently under effect, that would have been shared with the University of Connecticut or a member of its athletic department.
FOI #24-018 (01-18-24, 9:26 am) - Subject - Athletic revenue/expense
Name - Eben Novy-Williams
Affiliation - Sportico
Hi all. My name is Eben I am a reporter for Sportico. Reaching out with an open records request:
I am requesting a copy of the athletic department’s fiscal 2023 revenue/expense report, which it files each year with the NCAA. Asking for the full ~80-page document, ideally in PDF form.
Please provide the most recent Graduation Photography Contract on file. The contract should contain rebate information and all other binding parameters. Thank you.
FOI #24-017 (01-16-24, 3:35 pm) - Subject - Open Records Request - University of Connecticut
Name - Kevin Cohen
Affiliation - Winthrop Intelligence, LLC
Dear Sir or Madam,This is a request to obtain public records from University of Connecticut pursuant to applicable law, as well as the terms of a written contract that is in force between University of Connecticut and our company whereby our company provides the athletics department with a data and information service called Win AD (see www.winthropintelligence.com). I respectfully request your response be provided on a timely basis based on the applicable statutory requirements. If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than that time period, please contact me to advise when I should expect copies or the ability to inspect the requested records.Part 1: NCAA Finance Report
Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request a copy of the NCAA Annual Financial Report provided to the NCAA for the following fiscal years: FY 2022-2023 NCAA Financial ReportIf the requested records described above are available in electronic format (e.g., PDFs or CD), then I would prefer to receive the information in that format instead of paper copies. If you are able to email the records, I request all PDFs in a single WinZip file in the responsive email (no password protected files, please). If you are unable to email the records or you require an address to process this request, please find below my mailing address.Thank you very much for your assistance. Please let me know if you have any questions, or require any other information to process this request in a timely manner.
Thank you,
Kevin
Kevin Cohen
Winthrop Intelligence, LLC
732 S. Kenilworth Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60304
FOI #24-016 - Subject - Central Utility Plant Boiler Replacement (Internal File #22-24)
Name - Hope Redding
Affiliation -
At your convenience, please provide certified payrolls submitted by the contractors listed below for the dates indicated. We can continue to accept the responsive records electrically. If you have questions or need anything further on our end, please let me know.
• Ferguson Electric for Wk ending 10.28.23 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanical for Wk ending 10.28.23 through to the present
• Sullivan Benson for Wk ending 8.19.23 through to the present
• Environmental Testing & Balancing for Wk ending 11.5.23 through to present
FOI #24-014 (01-15-24, 5:08 am) - Subject - California's Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act - Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Case No.: BA24870
Name - Michael Ayele
Affiliation - Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing your discussions about [1] the decision of the California government to recognize through Assembly Bill No. 2777 (a.k.a) the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act that (i) an American is sexually assaulted every 68 (sixty eight) seconds; (ii) one out of every six women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (iii) only about 300 (three hundred) out of every 1,000 (one thousand) sexual assaults are reported to police; (iv) thirty three percent (33%) of women who are raped contemplate suicide; (v) thirteen percent (13%) of women who are raped attempt suicide; (vi) a 2016 analysis of 28 studies of nearly 6,000 women and girls 14 years of age or older who had experienced sexual violence found that 60 percent of survivors did not label their experience as “rape;” (vii) women may not define a victimization as a rape or sexual assault for many reasons such as self-blame, embarrassment, not clearly understanding the legal definition of the terms, or not wanting to define someone they know who victimized them as a rapist or because other blame them for their sexual assault; (viii) when the perpetrator is someone a victim trusts, it can take years for the victim even to identify what happened to them as a sexual assault; (ix) it is self-evident that the unique nature of the emotional and psychological consequences of sexual assault, especially on women, can paradoxically permit wrongdoers to escape civil accountability unless statutes of limitations are crafted to prevent this injustice from occurring; (x) it is self-evident that statutes of limitations for sexual assault need to be crafted in a way that does not cause the covering up company to enjoy the fruits of their cover up solely because our statutes of limitations permit, and thus motivate, such behavior; [2] Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W as a Black man who (i) upon reading California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act was given the impression that 70% (seventy percent) of girls (below the age of 18) and women (above the age of 18) don’t file complaints either with the police and/or the courts after falling victim to sexual violence; (ii) was given the very strong impression that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) were complicit in the sexual abuse suffered by women at the workplace upon reading the 3rd (third) chapter of the book published by New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor entitled: “She Said;” (iii) has had his written content on the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Case No.: BA48270 filtered by the “web” on the Internet without his prior approval; (iv) believes it would have been furthermore responsible of Vogue (magazine) to ask Jennifer Lawrence (in the month of September 2022) if she has in the past decided not to report to the authorities a sexual abuse she was the victim of...
FOI #24-013 (01-12-24, 9:20 am) - Subject - Athletics documents
Name - Steve Berkowitz
Affiliation - USA Today
The revenue-and-expenses report completed by the athletics department for the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 2023 fiscal year. It is a multi-page document that is due to be filed with the NCAA by Jan. 15, 2024. However, because some schools file this report in advance of the deadline, I am seeking it in this request. If the report is not available as of the date of this request, I ask that you hold this request open until Jan. 16, 2024.
The report contains more than 40 revenue and expense categories, followed by specific breakdowns of each of those categories, by sport and gender. I am requesting the full report, including the detail tables and the entire Statement of Revenues and Expenses that appears at the end of the report.
PLEASE NOTE: The NCAA report is different than the equity report that is sent to the U.S. Department of Education for Title IX compliance.