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Frohnmayer loses one ethics case, two others still open

It’s a long story. And some might say Frohnmayer won in the economic sense, having successfully billed the Deschutes County taxpayers for $550 an hour for his work pursuing this failed, politically motivated complaint, while simultaneously collecting a UO paycheck as “President Emeritus” and the 5th highest PERS payout in Oregon history…

Randy Geller needs help

UO Unclassified Job Announcements: Executive Assistant And Operations ManagerGeneral Counselhttp://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=4002  Executive AssistantGeneral Counselhttp://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=4003 These positions are currently held by Lauren Townsend and Amanda Hatch (whom Geller tried to stick with the random drug testing bag.) There’s been a lot of turnover in Geller’s office, both these jobs were last advertised…

Back for another feeding

Check the date on Interim Provost Jim Bean’s org chart. His friends are back: I guess it’s time to ask for more contracts, to see what their pay and perks are this time. These are the people advising Gottfredson? Or are we paying them to do, or not do, something else?…

Law school woes

8/4/2012: Jeff Manning of the Oregonian has a story on the woes of recent Oregon law school graduates: increasing debt, flat salaries, falling employment rates. One fact that surprised me: over the past 10 years the number of Oregon lawyers has increased by 10%, about the same rate as population…

Bean update

Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost Message for August 3, 2012 Colleagues: Last week I mentioned I would provide an update on the Tuesday, July 24 Leadership Retreat afternoon session. That session included participatory discussion of academic priorities for the development campaign and a presentation on technologically enhanced…

Gottfredson contract is

here. For contrast Larivere’s is here. I don’t see a clause preventing Gottfredson from pursuing the New Partnership – but Pernsteiner’s board does reserve the right to fire him on 30 days notice, without cause. Page 6. Wow. But even Lariviere’s first contract had something similar, as does Pernsteiner’s. BTW –…