12/6/2011: He is “moving forward on education”. He “feels a tremendous sense of urgency”. He will let UO community have “meaningful input in the transition and search” for new Prez – thanks. He won’t do anything about independent boards until 2013. Wow. No reason to read this, we’ve heard it…
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12/6/2011: Don’t trust him. Word down at the law school cafe is that the formal transition happens soon, but obviously he sold us out long ago. Lariviere thought $200,000 would buy some loyalty, but apparently Randy shopped that offer around. This 11/4/2011 OUS IMD is complicated – lots of ins…
12/6/2011: Starts at 9AM, blogged live to the extent possible. Pernsteiner: Plan A is Berdahl. Will you please not blog anything about the rest of this meeting? UO Matters: Maybe, maybe not. That’s up to the faculty. Pernsteiner: And if the board does not appoint Berdahl president, what will you…
12/5/2011: Please read this and consider joining in by sending the email below. The Oregon statutes on determining voting residence state (3) An elections official may consider, but is not limited to considering, the following factors in determining residency of a person for voter registration purposes: (a) Where the person…
Update: Frohnmayer is now out and I’m not going to waste my time finishing this post. If you still care, links to all the documents mentioned below are available on this site, just click on the labels below. Email me if you want a copy of his email threatening me…
12/3/2011: From his narrative of the “Rise and Fall of Richard Lariviere”, in the Oregonian: On Nov. 17, the board met to decide whether to allow state universities to have independent boards, a cornerstone reform that Lariviere advocated. “This was the defining issue, the cause of so much acrimony,” Donegan…
12/3/2011: That’s the gist of this Oregonian story. Because our Governor passionately believes in the importance of more administrative bloat for Oregon education. $280K a year, same as Pernsteiner. But will he get more perks than the Croissant Chancellor: staff, 2 houses, maid, landscaping, retirement add-on to PERS, extra expense…
12/3/2011: My prediction of Jim Bean‘s term as UO president, if the rumors that the board will appoint him next week turn out to be true.
12/2/2011: The UO students stuck up for the faculty and for the future of UO all this week. Now they are finishing dead week with a vote against the ill-conceived plans of the UO administration to build a new cadillac student union at student expense – but without student input.…
12/2/2011: Released 3PM Friday. Pdf here. Money graphs: Letter from Senate Executive Committee to the Statutory Faculty regarding UO Interim Presidential Appointment: December 2, 2011 Dear Chancellor Pernsteiner and Members of the State Board of Higher Education, The UO Senate Executive Committee urges you to approach Robert Berdahl to become…
12/2/2011: These links will be updated as I get time: Tim Gleason, Dean of Journalism is the latest name put forth by Pernsteiner in his efforts to stop Berdahl. I will post his contracts when I get them. Comments? From a senior admin with no dog in the fight, paraphrasing:…
12/1/2011: Yesterday’s meetings made it very clear to Governor Kitzhaber, the OUS Board, Chancellor Pernsteiner, and his mostly young and ambitious staff that there is only one clear way out of the disaster they have created for themselves: appoint Robert Berdahl as interim President and give him control of the…
11/29/2011: Steve Duin writes on OUS fail. Bill Graves of the Oregonian captures the craziness. People don’t often talk back to pandering buzzword spewing politicians, or laugh in their faces. We’d be a better country if we did: Board member James Francesconi … “We cannot be a great state without…
11/30/2011: Not everyone had a chance to speak their piece today. Send me more, I’ll post them. Chancellor Pernsteiner, At Monday’s meeting, the Board of Directors said that trust is vital to the relationship between our University and the OUS, and I agree. But the past few days have shown…
12/30/2011: (updated occasionally) 3PM faculty assembly now, streamed live, http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2010/12/22/senate-live/ I will try to tweet, follow on http://twitter.com/uomatters Professor Robert Z. Melnick knows Pernsteiner, and rips into Pernsteiner and Ciuffetti, pdf here. Assembly Motions (pdfs soon). 1) We love Lariviere. 2) We want our own board, 3) No more BS…