9/12/2011: of PSU VP Burton. He’ll end up with a slap on the wrist. The current Director, Ron Bersin, was hired for his remarkably incurious disposition. Too bad Pat Hearn is no longer in that job! Still, this has got to make Frohnmayer and Pernsteiner a little nervous.
Posts tagged as “Expense account abuse”
9/12/2011: I won’t have a change to look through these for a bit, entire pdf here. One sample below. Kenton is following Pernsteiner‘s lead, billing OUS for every croissant he can. Read Steve Duin’s Oregonian post on Kenton’s new contract. Last year’s story on Pernsteiner here is just as damning.
9/9/2011: I’d hoped to have copies of the last 3 months of expense reports for OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner and his VP Jay Kenton to post here today. I made a public records request for them 4 weeks ago, and I paid OUS for them. But the copies I received…
8/22/2011: From Dennis Thompson in the SJ: OUS workers ultimately are outraged by what they see as better raises, deals and perks being handed out to faculty and administrators while service staffers go without, Nisenfeld said. Perks like VP Burton’s PSU paid vacation to Europe? Or Chancellor Pernsteiner’s 2 houses,…
8/22/2011: This fool is still protesting his innocence. Steve Duin asks why he is not being prosecuted for theft: In a telling series of e-mails with Don Olcott, head of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education in London, Burton engages in the most blatant horse-trading to secure “an excuse to…
9/19/2011: Be clear: this is not some lowly professor abusing the system. It’s a politically well connected administrator, using $4500 in state funds for his “working trip” to England and Paris. From Brent Walth in WWeek: “We concluded that there was not a valid conference to justify PSU’s reimbursement of…
6/5/2009: UO’s Under-represented Minority Recruitment Plan or UMRP gives $90,000 to departments that hire faculty who self-report as racial or ethnic minorities. What do those faculty spend this money on? Here is a link to the accounting statement for one history professor’s UMRP account. He took $62,000 as supplemental summer…
In 2006 UO Provost John Moseley retired and was given a 1/2 time $124,000 a year sinecure as Director of UO’s Bend Programs. He wanted this because it allowed him to pad his PERS account and because he has a vacation home on the Deschutes. It turns out he’s been…