11/30/2011: From Robert Berdahl’s Op-Ed in the RG today: … The chancellor and board have recklessly ignored the wishes of donors, alumni, faculty and students. They have signaled the academic community throughout the nation that innovative, courageous leadership will neither be sought nor tolerated. If you want to be president…
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This is a UO Emergency. Attend the Statutory Faculty meeting, MAC court, 2:45 – 5PM Wed. Read this post on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s outrageous perks – paid for with money skimmed off taxpayers and student tuition. Email the OUS board to say you insist on a public review of Chancellor Pernsteiner…
11/30/2011: UO Economist to OUS Board and Chancellor Pernsteiner: “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!“
11/30/2011: Chancellor Pernsteiner will be on campus today, telling the UO faculty leadership how he will pick his new UO president. His chief of staff Bridget Burns has been briefing him with background info on us. Turnabout is fair play: Ms Burns’s OUS bio is here, OSU MPP thesis on…
As President Lariviere has said, this fight is not about him, it’s about UO. So true: in fact we went through this before. Here is the statement from the faculty and students from 1987 when the Chancellor and Board fired President Paul Olum (from the UO archives) with the original…
11/29/2011: Dear Statutory Faculty and UO Community: There will be a STATUTORY FACULTY meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) Nov. 30 from 3:10 to 5 pm in MAC COURT. The meeting will be preceded by a 10-minute University Senate meeting. We strongly encourage all statutory faculty* to participate and warmly invite the UO…
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.…
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…