11/25/2011: Did the OUS Board break the public meetings law by using a secret poll of its members to decide to fire Lariviere? Jack Bogdanski repeats the question on his popular Portland blog. No one can figure out how Dr. George Pernsteiner convinced Matt Donegan and the rest of the…
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11/25/2011, updated obsessively: Basic info: Pernsteiner scandals: Treetops, croissant abuse, voting fraud, Goldschmidt appointment, … OUS Board members’s secret phone numbers. Donegan and Pernsteiner fire Chip Kelly for making other Oregon teams look bad. Can individual OUS board members be sued if they fire Lariviere in the sham public meeting…
11/23/2011 with updates. I like the “personally liable” part. Here’s the deal as I understand it. The Board is now claiming they have *not* made a decision about renewal of Lariviere’s contract. They cannot do that without issuing public notice and having a meeting. Instead, OUS Board Chair Matt Donegan…
11/23/2011: From Uncle Phil in the Portland Business Journal: “It deeply saddens me that some people in power in our state continue to drive Oregon into a death spiral with their embrace of mediocrity. It’s yet another application of Oregon’s Assisted Suicide law. “For the Chancellor and the State Board…
11/22/2011: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week has the scoop: WW has learned that Oregon University System board members met with University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere on Monday, telling him that when his contract expires in June, it will not be renewed. Governor John Kitzhaber surprised Lariviere by affirming that…
From the SJ. More in this Oregonian story. The searchable list of all with annual payout > $100,000 is here. Many familiar UO names. Top 10 (based on 10-1-11 Gross Monthly Allowance) 1. Robert Bellotti: $41,341.672. Frederick Keller: $31,459.45 3. Lesley Hallick: $23,917.22 4. Steven Goldschmidt: $21,517.245. David Frohnmayer: $21,027.216.…
but Dr. Pernsteiner and his crack team will decide when, and how much authority and independence it will have. Or that’s the essence of this 11/18/2011 press release from OUS: Next steps for the committee outlined by co-chairs Paul Kelly and Allyn Ford are to develop what delegated authorities could…
11/21/2011: David Thompson of the SJ tweets that the judge just refused to issue an injunction, so basic data on PERS payouts by name and amount will be released to the SJ and the Oregonian today soon, and will presumably be posted online w/in a few days weeks. The top…
11/21/2011: I’d always wondered why reporters were spending so much time on the child rape coverup and so little time on the money that Joe Paterno and his crew were raking in. It turns out this was because Penn State had secured an exemption to the Pennsylvania public records law,…
11/21/2011: From a Kevin Kiley story in IHE, based on a paper released Friday by the Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein: “Many professors enjoy their work, finding it rewarding and helpful to their other professional duties, but if their books and essays do not find readers sufficient to justify…
11/20/2011: People have been sending me a lot of pictures and videos of the UC-Davis Campus Police assaulting the “Occupy” students with pepper spray. I don’t know the details so I’m not going to comment on what happened or whether or not Chancellor Katehi should go, though obviously the cop…
11/18/2011: “NCAA says it will examine how Penn State has handled scandal.” From the enablers on the NCAA Infractions Committee: *Eligible for reappointment Division Committee Positions Title Name & Institution Conference TermExpiration 0 Member Attorney John Black Independent SEP 2014* 0 Member Partner Roscoe Howard Andrews Kurth LLP Independent…
11/28/2011: The fate of President Richard Lariviere, of his New Partnership, and of UO as a serious research university is up in the air. Path A is control by OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner, followed by gradual but inevitable descent into mediocrity. Path B is Lariviere’s New Partnership, followed by a big…
11/17/2011: Greg Bolt of the RG has a comprehensive story on the administration’s plans for EMU expansion. VP Robin Holmes has proposed a Cadillac prestige project packed with expensive goodies – a swimming pool? Hot tubs? ASUO Pres Ben Eckstein – representing the students who will pay the bill –…
led investigators to look into the question of a Penn State cover-up in the Sandusky case.” From the latest NYT story.