2/22/2011: Stefan Verbano of the ODE has the most complete description of Kitzhaber’s education reform plan I’ve seen yet. Springfield Schools superintendent Nancy Golden is his adviser: How the governor’s plan will affect the host of higher education bills currently moving through the state legislature has yet to be determined.…
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2/21/2011 update. President Lariviere and Provost Bean must have got an earful about Frances Dyke’s announcement that she would stay on until summer 2012. Today Bean announces the search will get underway within a few weeks, and she will be replaced as soon as we can hire someone else. Of…
2/18/2011: This is from the meeting yesterday. The report is not polished but it is comprehensive. Link here. From 2005 to 2009: Number of students up 10%Number of GTF’s up 0.1% Number of faculty down 2%Number of tenure track faculty up 4% Number of administrators up 20%
2/18/2011: Because he won’t talk to the student press and because he didn’t consult student government about the plan to convert Public Safety to an armed police department. More here. ODE editorial here:
2/20/2011: Wisconsin is getting all the attention, but read about the faculty governance fight in Pocatello. From Insidehighered.com: Siding With President, State Governing Board Suspends Idaho State’s Faculty Senate The Idaho State Board of Education on Thursday suspended the Faculty Senate at Idaho State University, which voted no confidence last…
2/19/2011: The RG editorial board nails it: The state is no longer keeping faith with the spirit of Church’s gift. In accord with Church’s terms, the gift should be returned. President Lariviere uses his state provided home, McMorran House, regularly for all sorts of official functions. President Frohnmayer did the…
2/18/2011: Because he hired Liz Denecke as his Public Records Officer and Melinda Grier’s assistant Randy Geller as his General Counsel. From George Schroeder in the RG on UO’s latest efforts to hide records on a (minor) athletic scandal: Here’s your long-awaited update on the investigation into Oregon’s men’s basketball…
2/18/2011: Report from the UO component of the state employee Charitable Fund Drive: The 2010 CFD received 810 pledges in the amount of $251, 083. This is an increase of 30% in pledges and 3% in total dollars pledged compared to 2009. Although the average pledge decreased in 2010, more…
2/17/2011: The OA’s have been waiting for an email like this: Colleagues: Yesterday many of you received an email from Frances Dyke, announcing that she “had made this very personal decision” to retire as VP for Finance and Administration, effective June 30 2012. Contrary to the impression made in her…
2/17/2011: From Insidehighered.com. The UW-Madison head says: “In my view, it is dangerous not only for UW-Madison, but for the entire System and the state to have the System administration and the regents oppose the possibility that its flagship campus, or any other campus, be given the tools it needs…
2/17/2011: The union organizers have dropped the OA’s from their proposed bargaining unit and if they have any sense they will also drop the part-time NTTF’s – who have very different interests than the faculty and full-time NTTFs. So maybe it’s time to start taking the union seriously. This event…
2/16/2011: College athletics is corrupt to the core. The PlayoffPAC website has story after story: “Tostitos Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker, a fixture with the game for three decades and one of college football’s most prominent bowl executives, was placed on administrative leave Monday as officials continue to investigate allegations…
2/15/2011: Lariviere is in Salem today, lobbying the legislature. From David Sarasohn in the Oregonian: “We’re trying to preserve the public status of one of America’s great public universities,” Lariviere told his troops, sounding a Rockne-like tone unusual in the gray-flannel suits of university presidents. “Oregon is ready for this,…
2/14/2011: Stefan Verbano of the ODE quotes former UO Business School Dean and current marketing Prof Dennis Howard – strange, he doesn’t look like a revolutionary threat to the established order – on the link between athletic contributions and the real University of Oregon: “It’s called a donation or a…
2/11/2011: A small part of the Treetops costs. More later.