6/3/2011: There were three bills in the legislature for higher ed reform this year.
Gov. Kitzhaber’s bills to replace OUS and
Dr. PernsteinerMr. Pernsteiner with a new K-20 “Educational Investment Board”
http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB909/
http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/hb2962/UO President Lariviere’s proposals to create a free and independent UO Board of Directors focused on improving UO’s academic and research success and our contributions to a healthy, sustainable and diverse Oregon economy, while using private donations to double a modest state funded bond endowment, saving Oregon families and students on their tax and tuition dollars.
http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB559/
http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB115/OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner’s proposals to centralize authority for higher education in the hands of a careerist mid-level manager without a PhD who was appointed by a disgraced child molesting ex-governor without a public search, and then blow the state’s tax money on his own inflated salary, mansion, car, extra housing allowance, and undocumented expense accounts.
http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/HB2118/
http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB242/
According to this David Sarasohn story, only Pernsteiner’s plan is still alive.
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