Break out your hats and mark the day. On November 21st 2011, three thirteen years and four five six presidents ago, OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner and Board Chair Matt Donegan came down to UO with their ultimatum demanding Lariviere resign for trying to implement his plan to bring faculty pay to the AAU averages, and trying to set up an independent UO Board. Lariviere refused to leave, so they fired him, on instructions from Governor Kitzhaber. Nigel Jaquiss broke the news on the 22nd.
Phil Knight said it best:
“It deeply saddens me that some people in power in our state continue to drive Oregon into a death spiral with their embrace of mediocrity. It’s yet another application of Oregon’s Assisted Suicide law.
A week later the UO faculty, alumni, boosters, and even a few JH administrators united in protest, hired buses, and went to the board meeting in Portland to protest, with no effect:
That’s not why the fired him, sorry.
Something we agree on
When does the Bar do its ethics review on you Sam?
http://dailyemerald.com/2014/03/09/whats-the-matter-tensions-flare-between-asuo-president-and-uo-matters-editor/
The California Bar does not conduct its inquiry into the “moral character” of an applicant until he or she passes the Bar Examination. Results from the August exam are in, and Mr. Dotters-Katz is not on the pass list. The retake is in February, but the success rate for second tries is low.
What did the hat do other than give some professors and administrators raises while lower paid state workers got pay cuts? Seems like he wasn’t fired for the privatization board scheme, because that’s exactly what we got anyway.
The Hat allowed classified staff to make up our furlough hours (i.e. pay cut) in overtime pay if at all possible, so that we were held harmless. Since we are the lowest-paid staff on campus, that was a big deal for many of us.
I should have said, lowest-paid permanent staff. Go GTFF.
If I recall the history of this the system was negotiating a contract with classified staff at the time. The governor told the university presidents “thou shalt not give increases to professional staff and others during these negotiations.” “The Hat” ignored that and did it anyway and it blew up negotiations as the universities, at the table, told SEIU that they hadn’t given any increases to others. The system was ordered to let him go.