1/11/2012: Here’s the latest dump of Huron contracts and invoices. I don’t have the stomach to read these anymore – but from a quick glance, the hemorrhaging continues. Comments from more courageous readers welcome.
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1/11/2012: At the Senate meeting today Institute for Neuroscience director Shawn Lockery raised the very reasonable question of where UO was going to get the startup money for the 20 new science hires that Russ Tomlin has authorized. A new science hire can easily expect $1 million or so to…
1/11/012, 12-2PM Ford: “We want best president” Pernsteiner: Search committee names have been contacted, search consultant proposals due Friday. Search consultant searches and sells UO. Will be picked in a few weeks. P: Confident we can get a good president. What does he mean by good? P: My macro forecast…
Important to get a big turnout and lots of tough questions – particularly at the Gerlingher reception at 5PM. What are Pernsteiner and the Board willing to promise, in writing, to a new UO President regarding UO autonomy? 1/11/2012: Hear Berdahl explain how he plans to help get UO free…
1/1/12: Last week we wrote about how past athletic victories caused UO donors to give more to athletics, and less to academics. Today Sam Stites of the ODE writes on how much Chip Kelly and Rob Mullens will get from the Rose Bowl win etc: $295,000. Not clear if the…
1/9/2012: We’ve written before about the failed CFO search that led President Lariviere to appoint Jamie Moffitt to the UO job: Jamie did not go through the same interview process as the regular candidates for this job. Lariviere’s letter says: Frances Dyke announced in February that she will retire June…
1/8/2012: Back in November, Bob Berdahl wrote in the RG: If you want to be president of the University of Oregon, be prepared to knuckle under to the chancellor and the board and be wary of the promises of the governor. Now Berdahl has the job of helping the chancellor…
1/6/2012: Docket here. The OUS board is evaluating Pernsteiner today, in an executive session, without any chance for public input:
1/6/2012: Written 12/28/11, link here. Apparently there will be a more complete contract by 1/31/12. Salient points: It’s open ended. He’s got a key role in the search. Kitzhaber wants UO to have its own board, but not until the 2013 session, and on his own terms. And George Pernsteiner…
1/4/2012: One way to build a better university would be to invest in academics – as Richard Lariviere’s New Partnership proposed. Or there’s Dave Frohnmayer’s trickle down theory – sell out to the jocks and pretend. From the RG editorial a few days ago: Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer has no…
The OEIB website is here, pretty transparent. This is interesting, on local boards, from the 1/3/2011 meeting: 1/3/2011: In all the craziness around the Lariviere firing, I think I missed this 12/1/2011 Betsy Hammond story on the extremely confusing situation involving Kitzhaber’s plans for governance of Oregon education. Raises more…
1/3/2011: That’s the University of Pennsylvania Faculty Committee on Athletics, and the date is 1918. The coach didn’t do enough character building. Plus he lost the Rose Bowl, to Oregon. When did university faculties give up our control over athletics? Why? The Chronicle has a story on the efforts of…
January: Phil Barnhart discusses legislative opposition to a UO Board February: Pernsteiner’s Treetops scam revealed in Register Guard UO Professor Dennis Howard shows UO athletic success hurts giving to UO academics Frances Dyke “decides to retire” – in September 2012 March: Frohnmayer’s golden parachute deal April: Multi-million ORSA / Huron…
1/1/2012: Joe Nocera, the NYT columnist better known for stories on corruption in the financial sector, finds plenty of dirt in college athletics, and lays out a workable plan for cutting the burdens on the academic side, and shifting some of the benefits from overpaid athletic directors and coaches to…