6/3/2010: The OUS Board typically has one faculty member. The new appointment is Lynda Ciuffetti, Botany and Plant Pathology at OSU. Her research “…is in the area of host-pathogen interactions, specifically, interactions involving fungal pathogens.” That should give her a lot of extra insight into the OUS Chancellor and Board’s…
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6/2/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG has a story on the Jerry Lidz resignation, here, suggesting Frohnmayer deserved more of the blame for the Bellotti payoff than he got. Which was none. Meanwhile the lawyers are in an uproar over Lidz – this is the third of AG Kroger’s top…
6/1/2010: This is stunning news from Nigel Jaquiss at Willamette Week. (Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has more here.) Oregon Solicitor General General Jerry Lidz has given AG John Kroger two weeks notice. This is fallout from Lariviere’s firing of Melinda Grier: Lidz is her husband. After the Bellotti verbal…
5/30/2010: over public records. UO has a press release here: A new Office of Public Records will be established at the University of Oregon June 1, in a key step toward fulfilling President Richard Lariviere’s pledge to make the university as responsive, open and transparent as possible. Brian Smith, the…
5/30/2010: Alan Scher Zagier of the AP writes on what happens to NCAA division I scholarship players if the coach decides he/she wants them off the team. They lose all their funding, and if they want to finish their degree and are out of state, they pay out of state…
5/30/2010: from David Sarahsohn of the Oregonian: … An ad for Democratic front-runner John Kitzhaber promises “two years of college for all Oregon students who have earned it,” even if the film shows adorable pre-schoolers. A spot for Republican Chris Dudley talks about “transforming universities for innovation and job creation”…
update from Anonymous: It is a sad day at the University of Oregon when an administrator with the integrity and character of Rich Linton decides it’s time to leave. As Roast Duck says, he is a classy guy. While significantly elevating the profile of research, Rich always worked toward the…
Update: Linton’s own public statement is here: It is satisfying for me to leave knowing that the UO has seen increasing research accomplishments by its faculty, including sustained growth in sponsored research funding, interdisciplinary research initiatives and innovations supporting technology transfer and development. I am deeply grateful for our faculty,…
5/25/2010: Across the board cuts. From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian: The sheer size of the drop stunned lawmakers, who listened in stony silence as state economist Tom Potiowsky and senior economist Josh Harwood went through the numbers. .. House Minority Leader Bruce Hanna, R-Roseburg, said the shortfall “is a product…
5/24/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian: Lariviere recounted when Bellotti told him — amid his first year as athletic director after stepping down as football coach — that ESPN was seeking to hire him. “That’s when he told me that we owed him a great deal of money as…
5/23/2010: UO Journalism student Briselda Molina has a very thought provoking op-ed in the RG asking if public universities should charge the children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition. I know UO students like the one she writes about – brought to Oregon by their parents as infants or young children,…
5/22/2010: Normally when you make a request to the Oregon DOJ for public records, you get a reply from DOJ Attorney Michael Kron, the DOJ’s Government Transparency Czar. So when I asked for the full report on the Bellotti investigation, I was a little surprised to get a denial from…
5/22/2010: Rachel Bachmann in the Oregonian reports on two legislative hearings regarding UO: Democratic State Senator Rick Metsger will investigate allegations from union groups that money from the $200 million state bond sale for arena construction has been spent illegally, and …, the House Education Committee will hold a separate…
5/21/2010: Emma Kallaway gave a very good speech. His PhD advisor showed up, so this must be a big deal. So did an amazingly large faculty contingent. Good vibes, and not just from the tuba and drums. It was damn good speech. He explained his passionate commitment to public higher…
5/21/2010: … any day now. Because when you have been a VP for 5 years and you are still wasting your colleagues’ time with desperate emails about how “transformative change has been seeded”, it’s just a matter of when, not if: May 20, 2010 To: Deans and Directors From: Charles…