2/10/2011: Mrs George T. Gerlinger, a.k.a. Irene Hazard Gerlinger, of UO’s Gerlinger Hall, cautions the legislature on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s power grab:
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2/10/2011: Circa 1984, I’m guessing. Keep them coming, commentators. Link to 6mb file of about 25, here:
2/9/2011: From a PSU town hall on Pernsteiner’s plan: Despite the objections, Beaverton Democrat Chris Harker, who sits on the House committee giving the bill its first hearings, predicted it has a good chance of passing. “There is real momentum now,” Harker said. “I think we’re going to get it…
2/7/2011: People have been asking how giving at UO compares with other schools. The comparison group is the 54 public universities, Carnegie high or very high research research, with from 10K to 30K students, reporting to CAE. For the 2009-2010 academic year donations for UO athletics were 357% of the…
2/7/2011: The UO Foundation has refused to say much about their operations, to the point of hiring an attorney last year to get them an exclusion from the public records law. Nice try – I’m no economist, but I know a few things about finding data. No wonder they’ve been…
2/8/2011 update: Liz Denecke responds to our request for a little transparency about the current DPS Director and his two predecessors: Nice to hear from you. As to your first request, the resumes and cover letters from theemployment applications for Richard Turkiewicz, Kevin Williams, andDouglas Tripp became faculty records once…
“The board recognizes the educational value of many of these activities as part of the training of youth, but it proposes to see that the plan of payment for these activities is just.” … “The “over-emphasis” on athletics is intensified mainly by the neglect of other needs.” April 17,…
2/3/2011: We’ve written before on George Pernsteiner’s bizarre path to the top of Oregon’s higher education bureaucracy. Now it appears Kitzhaber has decided to keep him on as chancellor. That’s a bummer. Again, no search, no alternative candidates, no transparency. Given Pernsteiner’s self-interested opposition to Lariviere’s New-Partnership plan, this is…
2/2/2011: UO now has an online “official organ”, Inside Oregon. It’s OK. They’ve even got blogs on the hot topics: Francis Dyke’s plan for an armed UO police force, and President Lariviere’s new partnership plan. I gave their comments a test and the editor, Joe Moseley, is approving the critical…
at the UO Police Force meeting today, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Feb 2, in the Fir Room of the EMU: 1) As you know your previous two hires as DPS Director did not have their contracts renewed, under odd circumstances. The first was Richard Turkiewicz, whom you hired from…
2/1/2011: Matt Wolf in the ODE reports that VP for Finance Frances Dyke’s budget claims that: … The fiscal impact statement indicates that the passage of SB 116, which would allow for the transition of the Department of Public Safety into a sworn police agency, would have a minimal financial…
1/31/2011: The Oregonian prints the tragic story of Elizabeth Duncan, the girl who was the victim of Neil Goldschmidt, former Oregon Governor, US Secretary of Transporation, and (briefly) OUS President. She died two weeks ago after a life of drug abuse and mental illness. He is still a well connected…
1/31/2011: The decisions have all been made, the bills are in front of the legislature, Frances Dyke has written a blank check out of the general tuition fund. Hiring is under way and firearms training has commenced. Now it’s time to ask the students, faculty and staff for input: Jan.…
1/31/2011: George Pernsteiner is pretty much unique among university chancellors in not having a PhD – not that there’s anything wrong with that. So how did he end up pulling down $350K in salary and benefits from a state that’s been slashing higher ed spending? In 2004 OUS Board President…
1/30/2011: In a NY Times story on the UConn donor who pulled his sports donations when the AD didn’t ask him who to hire as coach. Professor Earl from English Lit, on Oregon. “The world thinks of us as a sports franchise,” he added. “They don’t care what we do…