12/3/2011: That’s the gist of this Oregonian story. Because our Governor passionately believes in the importance of more administrative bloat for Oregon education. $280K a year, same as Pernsteiner. But will he get more perks than the Croissant Chancellor: staff, 2 houses, maid, landscaping, retirement add-on to PERS, extra expense…
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12/3/2011: My prediction of Jim Bean‘s term as UO president, if the rumors that the board will appoint him next week turn out to be true.
12/2/2011: The UO students stuck up for the faculty and for the future of UO all this week. Now they are finishing dead week with a vote against the ill-conceived plans of the UO administration to build a new cadillac student union at student expense – but without student input.…
12/2/2011: Released 3PM Friday. Pdf here. Money graphs: Letter from Senate Executive Committee to the Statutory Faculty regarding UO Interim Presidential Appointment: December 2, 2011 Dear Chancellor Pernsteiner and Members of the State Board of Higher Education, The UO Senate Executive Committee urges you to approach Robert Berdahl to become…
12/2/2011: These links will be updated as I get time: Tim Gleason, Dean of Journalism is the latest name put forth by Pernsteiner in his efforts to stop Berdahl. I will post his contracts when I get them. Comments? From a senior admin with no dog in the fight, paraphrasing:…
12/1/2011: Yesterday’s meetings made it very clear to Governor Kitzhaber, the OUS Board, Chancellor Pernsteiner, and his mostly young and ambitious staff that there is only one clear way out of the disaster they have created for themselves: appoint Robert Berdahl as interim President and give him control of the…
11/29/2011: Steve Duin writes on OUS fail. Bill Graves of the Oregonian captures the craziness. People don’t often talk back to pandering buzzword spewing politicians, or laugh in their faces. We’d be a better country if we did: Board member James Francesconi … “We cannot be a great state without…
11/30/2011: Not everyone had a chance to speak their piece today. Send me more, I’ll post them. Chancellor Pernsteiner, At Monday’s meeting, the Board of Directors said that trust is vital to the relationship between our University and the OUS, and I agree. But the past few days have shown…
12/30/2011: (updated occasionally) 3PM faculty assembly now, streamed live, http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2010/12/22/senate-live/ I will try to tweet, follow on http://twitter.com/uomatters Professor Robert Z. Melnick knows Pernsteiner, and rips into Pernsteiner and Ciuffetti, pdf here. Assembly Motions (pdfs soon). 1) We love Lariviere. 2) We want our own board, 3) No more BS…
11/30/2011: From Robert Berdahl’s Op-Ed in the RG today: … The chancellor and board have recklessly ignored the wishes of donors, alumni, faculty and students. They have signaled the academic community throughout the nation that innovative, courageous leadership will neither be sought nor tolerated. If you want to be president…
This is a UO Emergency. Attend the Statutory Faculty meeting, MAC court, 2:45 – 5PM Wed. Read this post on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s outrageous perks – paid for with money skimmed off taxpayers and student tuition. Email the OUS board to say you insist on a public review of Chancellor Pernsteiner…
11/30/2011: UO Economist to OUS Board and Chancellor Pernsteiner: “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!“
11/30/2011: Chancellor Pernsteiner will be on campus today, telling the UO faculty leadership how he will pick his new UO president. His chief of staff Bridget Burns has been briefing him with background info on us. Turnabout is fair play: Ms Burns’s OUS bio is here, OSU MPP thesis on…
As President Lariviere has said, this fight is not about him, it’s about UO. So true: in fact we went through this before. Here is the statement from the faculty and students from 1987 when the Chancellor and Board fired President Paul Olum (from the UO archives) with the original…
11/29/2011: Dear Statutory Faculty and UO Community: There will be a STATUTORY FACULTY meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) Nov. 30 from 3:10 to 5 pm in MAC COURT. The meeting will be preceded by a 10-minute University Senate meeting. We strongly encourage all statutory faculty* to participate and warmly invite the UO…