1/25/2012: It’s taking George a while to find UO community members willing to serve on a committee with him. Wonder why. If you are faculty and haven’t been contacted, you are probably not on the list. Pernsteiner and Ford will be here next month to explain themselves – Matt Donegan is clearly never going to set foot in Eugene again in public.
I wanted to update you on the search process for the University of Oregon president. Although we had hoped to be able to name the search committee by now, we do not yet have commitments from all the people we are contacting. We hope now to be able to finalize the membership late this week or early next. With the advice of Interim President Berdahl and a panel of faculty and students, we have chosen a consulting firm to assist in the search. We selected Diversified Search as the apparently successful proposer. This is the same company that recently assisted in two high level executive searches at the University. We are currently in the midst of the legally required period for other proposers to protest that selection. If no protest is lodged, Diversified can start work later next week.
We continue to expect to have a series of forums and meetings regarding the search process on February 8, including the University Senate meeting at 3:00 that afternoon.
Thank you.
George Pernsteiner
Chancellor, Oregon University System
I’ve seen Pernsteiner on campus quite a bit. For as much shit as we gave them- I think they’ve been handling this better than I anticipated. Frankly all that matters is Allan Ford coming to campus- I’ve met him twice now and he seems to be listening.
We shall see.
yes, Ford seems good in person. If he pulls this off I might forgive him for leaving us holding the $15 million bag for his alumni center.
Word is that the hold up is the time it takes to get commitments from external committee members, not the internal UO members.
I think we should be sure to thank Mr. Pernsteiner for his actions regarding President Lariviere since it is the one thing that is likely to assure unionization of the U of O faculty.