The UO Senate Transparency Committee will meet with UO Public Records Officer Liz Denecke this Thursday 12/9/2010 at 11 AM, in the EMU Oak room. From the UO Senate Calendar: Senate Transparency Committee Date: Thu, 12/09/2010 – 11:00am Location: Oak Room in the EMU All meetings of the STC are…
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12/8/2010: UO student and ODE Opinion Editor Tyree Harris has an extremely interesting Op-Ed in the Oregonian on black culture and his place in it. (Thanks to Tomchak for the link.) Being called a sellout because I don’t accept the media-spun perceptions of blackness made me paranoid and uncomfortable. I was…
12/8/2010: Not sure this is a new job, but it looks like Frances Dyke is giving DPS a new administrator to keep track of all the money she is throwing at them. Presumably this will be paid for out of the $3 million that she just took back from the…
12/6/2010: It’s not officially a done deal, but Nigel Jaquiss reports he is on the short list of state agency heads who have been told to prepare their resignations. Kitzhaber writes: You will note that the list does not include all state agencies or programs. Rather, it represents my immediate…
12/6/2010: VCU’s president is in some serious trouble with his university’s board. The confidentiality agreements he made his staff sign are part of the problem. It’s a public university. Someday administrators will learn that transparency is the best policy for the long run. They sure haven’t learned it at UO…
12/6/2010: From Alan Brettman in the Oregonian, via Alex Tomchak Scott’s excellent Commentator digest. Worth reading: Knight’s take is that Lariviere wants to privatize UO and raise tuition. Q: What’s next to elevate the status of the University of Oregon? A: I think the athletic department is really the best marketing tool…
12/6/2010: Stefan Verbano of the ODE digs into the recordings of the OUS meeting on the new UO athletic complex, back in June: At one point in the meeting, however, Lariviere spoke frankly about how the school has been obliged to embrace such projects even if they do not buttress…
12/5/2010: As we wrote this summer, the university funding/autonomy situation in NY is very similar to that in Oregon. There is even a wealthy donor pushing an autonomy proposal and promising a big donation in return. Of course, if Phil Knight and Howard Slusher have made any promises to UO, they…
Meanwhile, Chancellor Pernsteiner prepares his OUS board and staff:
12/1/2010: The Senate meets today, agenda here. A report from President Lariviere/Provost Bean on the Riverfront Research Park should be interesting, given recent revelations about UO’s apparent failure to follow the development procedures. I suspect the statement will be limited, given the potential for a lawsuit from the developer. France…
Sorry, we’ve moved on. Unacceptable (bad to worse): Lorraine Davis Jim Bean Dave Frohnmayer Clearly unqualified, but apparently mentioned: Jamie Moffitt, Robin Holmes, Frog
11/30/2010: From the IU press office, here. Their previous dean resigned unexpectedly.
11/29/2010: The RG has an editorial with a clear and succinct summary of the issues around the proposed ORI building. At least it seems clear to a casual observer like me: … But now another obstacle has arisen. When the research park was created in 1986, the UO, the city…
11/24/2010: When I got the campus alert involving Sunday’s sexual assault on campus, I wondered how long it would take DPS to use it to argue they need more money and police powers. Not long. This would be slightly more plausible if they weren’t pissing away the 110% budget increase…
11/24/2011: Not content with violating Oregon’s public meetings law by making a secret decision to fire Lariviere, the OUS Board members have now had all their phone numbers removed from the OUS website. Good luck with that. A helpful reader passes along their browser cache. I assume these are work…