10/28/2010: I’ve been getting questions about Randy Geller’s pay. As Melinda Grier’s Deputy, he earned $138,326. After Ms Grier was fired, he got an extra stipend of $19,386 (annual). As GC, Grier had been paid $184,710 – this was after 12 years as GC. Randy Geller was hired as an…
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10/27/2010: From KEZI reporter Dan Corcoran’s story tonight on the insider appointment of Melinda Grier’s longtime deputy Randy Geller as UO’s new General Counsel: After a national search, Lariviere says Geller was the most qualified candidate. “His attitude towards transparency and accountability was exactly what I was looking for,” Lariviere…
10/26/2010: UO is looking for an Events Manager for Matt Court. To report to the Senior Events Manager for Matt Court. Job posting here. There’s some boilerplate about being fiscally responsible – bit late for that, eh? – but this part really caught my eye: Experience with AutoCAD is preferred.…
10/26/2010: Back in April UO General Counsel Melinda Grier was fired for her office’s “deficient legal representation” involving, among other things, failure to deal properly with public records requests. Her mistakes cost UO millions. The Attorney General’s investigation alone cost $44,000. Three weeks ago Oregon AG John Kroger and his…
10/26/2010 update: A careful, and helpful, reader points out that the SSA email says: For your information, each student-athlete has signed the NCAA Student-Athlete statement, which includes the Buckley Amendment Consent Declaration, which allows Services for Student Athletes the right to this information. Not our first mistake, or our last.…
We’ve heard that UO has recently started conducting performance evaluations of some administrators. This will come as a surprise to many who felt that the end of annual appraisals was nigh. No word yet if this process extends to the central administration. We are trying to track down details on…
10/22/2010: From the Chronicle: Faculty of Bowling Green State U. Votes in Favor of Union Representation By Audrey Williams June Faculty members at Bowling Green State University have voted in favor of union representation in an election that administrators at the Ohio institution had campaigned heavily against. About 85 percent…
10/21/2010: The Lariviere’s are splitting their bets, 50% on each. Plus $200 to Tedd Wheeler, the Treasurer who just said no to Lariviere’s restructuring plan debt. Persteiner is putting his money down on the Democrats, as are most U of O employees. The Nike crowd, on the other hand, is…
10/12/2010: From Lyzi Diamond in the Oregon Commentator: At tonight’s ASUO Senate meeting, President Rousseau announced that the ASUO is moving forward with a smoke-free campus policy. The Executive received an $800,000 grant to be spent over a number of years from PacificSource Health Plans as part of their Healthy…
10/20/2010: I’m posting 3 comments from readers on President Lariviere’s decision to encourage managers to use overtime work to compensate staff for pay lost to the state mandated furlough, and ensure that the work of UO got done despite the furlough. Thank you all for these thoughtful comments. I know…
10/20/2010: I heard John Lewis speak a few years ago at UO: “Don’t believe them when they tell you things never change, that you don’t matter. You do matter. America has changed. America is a better country now that it was. We changed it.” Yes. Update: But maybe we haven’t,…
10/19/2010: The Oregon Commentator has been on a binge. Alex Tomchak Scott is publishing daily updates of UO relevant stories, with commentary. Very popular at Johnson Hall, I hear. They also published the best yet inside view of the recent riots, by Russ Coyle (p 18). Their proposed solution? Lower…
10/19/2010: Today the RG prints a story on the Lariviere overtime kerfuffle and Pernsteiner’s attempt to get Lariviere to toe the OUS line on his UO restructuring plan. This is a week after Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week did the hard work getting the audit reports and emails for the…
10/18/2010: Wondering what was on the agenda of the 10/8 OUS Board meeting? Try here. All kinds of interesting things related to the Bellotti payoff, new regulations for how Pernsteiner will rule all the university presidents, an internal audit report on UO, etc. Wondering what sort of debate there was,…
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10/20/2010: by Alex Tomchak Scott. This daily update is becoming a must. Read too far though, and you’ll get into the subsequent anti-Kitty Piercy on OSPIRG editorial. And you should: .In an attempt to help the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group regain its funding from the ASUO in the…