reports Frances Dyke is searching around for a scapegoat to stick the ORSA collapse / Huron boondoggle on. Uh, that’s your name on the contracts, Ms Dyke.
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4/14/2011: Last week I asked Liz Denecke for a copy of the Huron consulting report – which the contract amendment says was to be complete by 3/15. Turns out Dyke and Huron mutually agreed to put it off until the end of June. OK, I’ve now asked for copies of…
4/14/2011: Looks like our croissant loving Chancellor, Dr. George Pernsteiner, has come through for independence. Bill Graves in the Oregonian: A bill that would free Oregon universities from hundreds of state agency regulations and give them more control over their money and operations appears to have all the support it…
4/13/2011: A very good idea: Preferred Background Experience in student recruitment, education advocacy, or college counseling Proficiency and fluency (grammar, spelling, syntax, structure) in both written and spoken Spanish Experience with, or graduation from, the University of Oregon This is a full time, 12-month, fixed-term appointment. Salary range is $29,000…
4/13/2011: This just in from Bean. Excellent news, she was the search committee’s top choice. And this was a real national search with real faculty on the hiring committee. Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the hiring of Kimberly A. Espy as the University of Oregon’s new Vice President…
4/13/2011: (Updated, Verbano ODE story here, bojack.org here.) A random dump of a few months of OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner’s expense accounts. Our Chancellor does not let a croissant pass his lips without charging it to the taxpayers and students. Extrapolating, it looks like about $7000 in per diem charges per…
4/12/2011: Good call: From: “Nathan Tublitz” Date: April 12, 2011 6:17:48 PM PDTTo: [email protected]: president Lariviere , [email protected]: senate10_11: US10/11-10 New Partnership motion withdrawnReply-To: [email protected] Dear Senators, President Lariviere and Provost Bean: I write to let you know that the Senate Executive Committee, sponsor of US10/11-10 Motion to endorse the…
4/12/2011: From what I hear Huron and Moira Kiltie have fixed the ORSA situation and it is now running smoothly. But this was – is – sure expensive, and Linton is still not telling us how it got this bad. $1,789,000 should at least buy a story. But nope –…
4/12/2011: Nice try, from Pernsteiner’s attorney: The complete letter is here. Mr. Gary’s letter does not seem consistent with Chancellor Pernsteiner’s expense accounts and calender, here. But some additional data should answer that question, and I will get it. I certainly don’t want to clog the tubes with inaccurate posts!
4/11/2011: VP for Research Rich Linton has now issued an explanation of who is running ORSA (Moira Kiltie has just been promoted) and who all the Huron consultants are. Rich is not providing a word on the cost – but here are the contracts and $1.5 million in invoices. Another…
4/11/2011: The UO Senate votes Wednesday on endorsing Lariviere’s New Partnership plan. Ian McNeely wrote this last week in the ODE: I have studied the New Partnership in detail, plus the two bills proposed in Salem to enact it. I have asked President Lariviere tough questions about donor influence, public…
4/8/2011: Date: April 8, 2011 5:31:06 PM PDTTo: Elizabeth Denecke , Public Records Requests Cc: Frances Dyke , …Subject: public records request, Huron report Hi Liz – The last amendment to the Huron contracts you sent me earlier this week says: A. The second to the last bullet point in…
4/8/2011: A commenter suggests that these Huron invoices are not complete. We are on that. Since we have an active petition in with the Attorney General, we are expecting that we will get a quick answer from UO this time: Date: April 7, 2011 5:23:24 PM PDTTo: Elizabeth Denecke Cc:…
4/7/2011: It took a petition to Attorney General John Kroger to force the UO administration and Public Records Officer Liz Denecke to finally cough up these documents. No wonder. Our administration has blown about $1.5 million since last June – $130,000 a month – on a contract to administer UO’s…
At some point you start wondering what they are hiding. Maybe we really are paying $100,000 a month out of our ICC money? Maybe they didn’t put the contract out for bid? It would have been much simpler – and much more in the spirit of trust and transparency –…