12/28/2011: Former ASUO Pres and current UO Law Student Sam Dotters-Katz has started a group to promote UO independence by encouraging the legislature to give UO authority to have its own governing board. As you know, President Lariviere’s contract was prematurely terminated last month by the OUS Board. Our President’s…
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12/14/2011: Kitzhaber’s just full of good news for UO lately. From the RG: Oregon universities, including the University of Oregon, will abide by Gov. John Kitzhaber’s call for a state hiring freeze while lawmakers wrestle with expected declines in tax revenue. Presidents of all seven state universities are expected to…
in New York. 12/13/2011. From the NYT: [James H. Simons] joined two governors, David A. Paterson and Andrew M. Cuomo, in pressing the Legislature to shore up the finances of the State University of New York, the parent system of Stony Brook, in part by raising tuition. He made it…
12/7/2011: Allan Brettman of the Oregonian has a good piece: For donors like Lorry Lokey and Vinton “Slim” Sommerville, Lariviere’s ouster was a stunning blow that no amount of explanation of process and political niceties can soothe. “It’s the governor’s fault and I hope the voters remember this two years…
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…
11/28/2011: 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…
11/12/2011: We wrote about this possibility back in August. Now it seems to have happened. This new IMDB from the 11/4/2011 OUS Board meeting will leave President Lariviere unable to obtain legal advice from anyone other than attorneys appointed and monitored by Pernsteiner. Read it all. Not only does it…
11/6/2011: Ohio State has just borrowed big to fund an expansion of the academic side. Fascinating Oregonian column by David Sarasohn here on the very unusual 100 year bonds. (Yes, we know Frohnmayer sold $230 million in bonds for 2008, but that was for a basketball arena – although tuition…
10/23/2011: An Op-Ed in the RG. DeJarnette is a journalism major, a scholarship athlete on the track team, and a member of UO’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. He argues there are some legitimate concerns, but also some intransigent stereotypes which he attempts to clear up: I recently witnessed two classmates roaring…
9/24/2011: Breneman is an economist at the UVA Ed school, I think Pernsteiner hired him to consult on the OUS alternative to Lariviere’s new partnership. Or maybe UO hired him to consult on the new partnership. Lariviere wants a UO board, and SB 242 allows one, but Pernsteiner doesn’t want…
9/22/2011: His math makes no sense, but we appreciate the sentiment. Op-Ed here: The OUS has identified eight comparator universities against which to evaluate the UO, ranging from the University of California at Santa Barbara to the University of Michigan. Based on that scale, UO salaries for tenured faculty in…
8/9/2011: From Insidehighered.com: Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro will on Thursday unveil a plan designed to reduce government involvement in the state’s 14 public universities, giving the institutions more authority in administrative and financial matters if they meet certain performance benchmarks. … Because the process to date has…
6/27/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story with some analysis. Saul Hubbard of the RG has some good quotes here. You can get a pdf of SB909 here, and of SB242 here. (In these pdf’s the bold parts are new law, the italic parts are deletions of…
6/24/1011 SB242, having passed the Senate a while ago, is now moving through the House. If you understand what is going on please leave a comment. 6/23/2011: The Oregonian reports the legislature has cut Chancellor Pernsteiner’s pay and benefits package by 11%. Just kidding, it’s for higher ed in general.…