1/6/2012: Docket here. The OUS board is evaluating Pernsteiner today, in an executive session, without any chance for public input:
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1/6/2012: Written 12/28/11, link here. Apparently there will be a more complete contract by 1/31/12. Salient points: It’s open ended. He’s got a key role in the search. Kitzhaber wants UO to have its own board, but not until the 2013 session, and on his own terms. And George Pernsteiner…
The OEIB website is here, pretty transparent. This is interesting, on local boards, from the 1/3/2011 meeting: 1/3/2011: In all the craziness around the Lariviere firing, I think I missed this 12/1/2011 Betsy Hammond story on the extremely confusing situation involving Kitzhaber’s plans for governance of Oregon education. Raises more…
12/30/2011: The docket for the 1/6/2012 OUS Board meeting is out. Summer session tuition increases (very large for law school) and this perk for Dr. Pernsteiner: 5. Academic title can be assigned to staff members in unclassified academic service, whether the type of service is teaching, research, extension, administration or other service. Deans, vice presidents, presidents, Chancellor, and vice chancellors may have the academic rank of professor as determined by each institution’s criteria. A commenter points out this may be Pernsteiner’s exit strategy. Sounds possible: Kitzhaber appoints a new OEIB boss, Pernsteiner…
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…
12/14/2011: That’s my read of the recent chatter. We wish him well, happy to write a glowing letter.
(interim). And then appoints Allyn Ford as chair of search committee for permanent President, with no consultation with the faculty. Throw the dog a bone? Aren’t we still paying off his Ford Alumni Center debt? The gift that keeps on taking. Berdahl’s opinions on OUS board members like Allyn Ford…
12/9/2011: 5:11PM. The board tricked us and is doing this meeting in person. They also started with an executive session, not announced in advance. Web link here. They are currently talking about how great Berdahl is. Now they are laughing, voting. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, …12/8/2011: Does anyone know…
12/3/2011: From his narrative of the “Rise and Fall of Richard Lariviere”, in the Oregonian: On Nov. 17, the board met to decide whether to allow state universities to have independent boards, a cornerstone reform that Lariviere advocated. “This was the defining issue, the cause of so much acrimony,” Donegan…
12/3/2011: That’s the gist of this Oregonian story. Because our Governor passionately believes in the importance of more administrative bloat for Oregon education. $280K a year, same as Pernsteiner. But will he get more perks than the Croissant Chancellor: staff, 2 houses, maid, landscaping, retirement add-on to PERS, extra expense…
12/1/2011: Yesterday’s meetings made it very clear to Governor Kitzhaber, the OUS Board, Chancellor Pernsteiner, and his mostly young and ambitious staff that there is only one clear way out of the disaster they have created for themselves: appoint Robert Berdahl as interim President and give him control of the…
11/30/2011: Not everyone had a chance to speak their piece today. Send me more, I’ll post them. Chancellor Pernsteiner, At Monday’s meeting, the Board of Directors said that trust is vital to the relationship between our University and the OUS, and I agree. But the past few days have shown…
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…
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.…