3/7/2012: Just 3 months after he and Matt Donegan fired Lariviere, Pernsteiner now has a job ad posted in the Chronicle. Short version:
a) Pernsteiner lets UO keep claim to be flagship AAU and the UO Foundation agrees not to purse public meetings and state audit complaints against him. (Sorry George, but I didn’t sign that deal.):
The UO, located in Eugene, is one of the nation’s premier public teaching and research universities, the flagship institution of the Oregon University System, and one of only two AAU universities in the greater Northwest.
b) Round up the usual buzzwords:
Only one “sustainability”, one “diversity”, one integrity. No “athletics” – dream on. Four passion/ates!
c) Pirate potential:
… -a president who relentlessly pursues …
… seize the possibilities that lie before the university …
… demonstrated success in attracting appropriate financial resources-public and private …
d) Must understand how to subvert the university senate and enjoy frustrating the professors:
The President will have a clear understanding and appreciation of shared governance as a fundamental part of the culture of the university.
e) Lariviere’s “New Partnership” lives on:
The President will embrace the role and mission of a dynamic public research university that is committed to raising the aspirations of all Oregonians while recognizing the increasing role of the private sector in fulfilling the university’s aspirations.
The ad was written for another Richard Lariviere. So why do I have this sinking feeling some Jim Bean type is going to end up with the job?
Meanwhile, OSU goes around selling itself as “Oregon’s leading public research university” where it counts, in student recruiting.
What about that rumor that OSU SAT scores have surpassed UO for the first time?
When you’re the “flagship” who cares about research or SAT scores?
Besides, UO has equity, diversity, sustainability, maybe a union some day — what more could it take to attract a topnotch pres?
dead duck agrees and notes that OSU’s claim is an object lesson for the perils of formula budgeting. OSU gets twice as much per student as rest of OUS, why wouldn’t they go after more students? the rest of OUS pays about half of the cost of each additional OSU student. gee, why not double the size of OSU and just closeall the rest? our own campus budget model also has exactly these kinds of perverse incentives embedded in it as well.