11/29/2011: At 5:05, after sitting for two hours pretending to listen to us, and right before the board members were to vote, Board member Paul Kelly announced he had a sudden need to go to the men’s room. The entire board filed out with him, coming back 10 minutes later.…
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Live video of the OUS meeting will be streamed at http://ous.edu/state_board/meeting/webcast I will try to tweet, follow on http://twitter.com/uomatters 11/28/2011: Insidehighered.com with a comphrehensive story on “The Battle for Eugene” 11/27/2011: I’ll be going Monday, I encourage everyone to go. It takes bodies in the square to make things change.…
11/28/2011: Time to change the OUS agenda: Please copy, edit as you like, and email to the list below. CC [email protected] and I’ll keep a tally – hard for them to ignore a reasonable request like this, especially now. Dear OUS Board Chair Donegan and OUS board members: I’m writing…
11/27/2011: Maybe we made a difference: Letter #1: 19 legislators sign in support of Lariviere. Letter #2: 8 Eugene area legislators call for Pernsteiner to make no decision at the Monday meeting in Portland, using our GEC complaint closed meeting arguments of insufficient notice. (So, the meeting is on regardless…
11/27/2011: Or maybe the headline should read: “Chancellor Pernsteiner loots Oregon student’s budgets to pay for his mansions, maids and croissants” Sam Stites of the ODE has the scoop on the former interpretation, with some Aaron Marineau photos of the perpetrators fleeing the well manicured, spacious grounds of Treetops, OUS…
11/27/2011: The Oregon GEC is charged with enforcing Oregon law regarding public meetings. We believe the OUS decision to fire President Lariviere in secret without public notice of their meeting and to then call a sham meeting to rubber-stamp their secret decision violates that law. We have emailed have the…
11/26/2011: Public meetings complaint on Lariviere firing here. In the Oregonian Kitzhaber finally explains why he fired Lariviere: Kitzhaber is the CEO, and the rest of us are his employees: In my opinion, should the Board of Higher Education decide to terminate Dr. Lariviere’s contract on this basis, it would…
Ali Bongo Ondimba adds his voice to the list of Lariviere supporters. A good reminder that this fight should be about process, faculty governance, and transparency – not “We Love Our President”. Steve Duin of the Oregonian rips into Kitzhaber: Death penalty for UO faculty and students, but not for…
11/25/2011: No, I don’t mean President Lariviere’s contract. I mean Chancellor Pernsteiner’s. Governor Kitzhaber can’t be too happy with Pernsteiner, after he sold him a simple plan to get rid of a man he described as troublemaker with no faculty support, which then blew up in Kitzhaber’s face. Time is…
11/25/2011: Did the OUS Board break the public meetings law by using a secret poll of its members to decide to fire Lariviere? Jack Bogdanski repeats the question on his popular Portland blog. No one can figure out how Dr. George Pernsteiner convinced Matt Donegan and the rest of the…
11/25/2011, updated obsessively: Basic info: Pernsteiner scandals: Treetops, croissant abuse, voting fraud, Goldschmidt appointment, … OUS Board members’s secret phone numbers. Donegan and Pernsteiner fire Chip Kelly for making other Oregon teams look bad. Can individual OUS board members be sued if they fire Lariviere in the sham public meeting…
11/23/2011 with updates. I like the “personally liable” part. Here’s the deal as I understand it. The Board is now claiming they have *not* made a decision about renewal of Lariviere’s contract. They cannot do that without issuing public notice and having a meeting. Instead, OUS Board Chair Matt Donegan…
11/23/2011: From Uncle Phil in the Portland Business Journal: “It deeply saddens me that some people in power in our state continue to drive Oregon into a death spiral with their embrace of mediocrity. It’s yet another application of Oregon’s Assisted Suicide law. “For the Chancellor and the State Board…
11/22/2011: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week has the scoop: WW has learned that Oregon University System board members met with University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere on Monday, telling him that when his contract expires in June, it will not be renewed. Governor John Kitzhaber surprised Lariviere by affirming that…
From the SJ. More in this Oregonian story. The searchable list of all with annual payout > $100,000 is here. Many familiar UO names. Top 10 (based on 10-1-11 Gross Monthly Allowance) 1. Robert Bellotti: $41,341.672. Frederick Keller: $31,459.45 3. Lesley Hallick: $23,917.22 4. Steven Goldschmidt: $21,517.245. David Frohnmayer: $21,027.216.…