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New President sets up transparent faculty advisory group

12/22/2010: That would be the new President of UVa. Jack Stripling of Insidehighered.com has an interesting article on her efforts to involve faculty in financial decision-making: The 13-member crew, whose membership is weighted toward those with some business or finance acumen, is charged to serve as an informal advisory group…

Public records reforms

12/21/2010: Oregon has good public records and meetings laws. But the State’s Attorneys General who enforce these laws also provide legal representation to state agencies – agencies who often would much prefer to keep the records hidden. Dave Frohnmayer, ironically, was the best of the recent AGs at supporting the…

A cry for help from OUS

12/21/2010: This is *one sentence* from the Oregonian blog post pushing Paul Kelly and George Pernsteiner’s OUS higher ed plan, written by their spokesperson Di Saunders. Read this and ask if these people should be in charge of higher ed in Oregon: Creating advantages, efficiencies, and cost control through structural…

More on restructuring

12/15/2010: Excerpting from Bill Graves in the Oregonian: SALEM – A bipartisan legislative task force Wednesday approved a plan that would give Oregon public universities more autonomy while bringing them under the authority of a new Higher Education Coordinating Commission. The proposed Higher Education Coordinating Commission would set goals and…

VP for Diversity search

12/14/2010: From the official announcement: The University of Oregon is firmly committed to diversity and seeks to further this goal among our faculty, staff and student body.  To lead us in these efforts, we are searching for a new Vice President of the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity to…

Failure to Communicate

12/10/2010: The Connecting Eugene group recently made this appeal to the Senate Transparency Committee regarding UO’s delay responding to public records requests about the Trammmel Crow / ORI / Riverfront Research contracts, and UO’s refusal to grant a public interest fee waiver for the documents. Yesterday the committee met to address this complaint.…