UO Trustees to be public by August 19

7/18/2013: SB 270 gives Kitzhaber a month to appoint the UO Board Trustees. They don’t have any real authority until 7/1/2014, but for better or worse their names will be indelibly associated with the faculty union bargaining agreement, the lack of transparency in JH, and other big UO announcements such as the Provost search and the UO Golf Course, from the get-go. Presumably the insider candidates are already keeping an eye on Rudnick and Geller’s work, and making their views on UO’s future direction known to President Gottfredson:

SECTION 168. (1) Notwithstanding the operative date set forth in section 171 of this 2013 Act, the Governor shall appoint all of the members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon and all of the members of the Board of Trustees of Portland State University by August 19, 2013, so that these appointees may be confirmed by the Senate in the manner provided in ORS 171.562 and 171.565 by September 30, 2013.  

SECTION 169. Except as provided in section 168a of this 2013 Act, the State Board of Higher Education shall continue to have jurisdiction over the operations of a university with a governing board as defined in section 2 of this 2013 Act through June 30, 2014. However, the governing board shall propose funding requests pursuant to section 8 of this 2013 Act and ORS 351.052, as amended by section 42 of this 2013 Act, and shall prepare budgets, in cooperation with the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015.

I assume big contributors to the “Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence” PAC are high on Kitzhaber’s list:

1239193	04/30/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Edward L Maletis	Cash Contribution	$65,000.00
1248721	05/11/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Patrick J Kilkenny **	Cash Contribution	$65,000.00
1252694	05/16/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Andrew S Berwick, Jr. **	Cash Contribution	$65,000.00
1253400	05/16/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Charles M Lillis **	Cash Contribution	$65,000.00
1254632	05/18/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Philip H Knight	Cash Contribution	$65,000.00
1251746	05/15/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Timothy P Boyle	Cash Contribution	$62,500.00
1337195	09/17/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	Donald E Tykeson	Cash Contribution	$30,000.00
1268734	06/18/2012	Original	Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence	John E Von Schlegell	Cash Contribution	$25,000.00