8/31/2023: Any truth to the rumor Dennis Galvan will offer him a visiting professorship in the Global Studies program, or is this the final chapter in one of the UO administration’s stranger affairs? The NYT on the coup and Bongo’s legacy, here: “As the all-powerful ruler of oil-rich Gabon, Ali Bongo…
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4/30/2019 update: Now official, according to reporter Michael Tobin, in UO’s newspaper of record, here. Meanwhile the UO’s Twin Eden’s partnership with Gabon continues under the leadership of former Ambassador Eric Benjaminson – at least according to the official UO PR website here. 4/22/2019: Or at least that’s what the University…
Dennis Galvan (Poli Sci) is the new head of Undergraduate Studies. I know I’ve said a few unkind things about Dennis in the past, but that was only because I knew he was a better man than Ali Bongo deserved. UGS is the right job for him. I’m not being…
12/18/2014: And people at UO flip out over a few picketing grad students? Last I heard the status of the $15M endowment payment to the UO Foundation was still up in the air. I can’t imagine $60 oil is going to increase the chances it will happen. 6/18/2014 update: Trouble in…
Galvan confirmed as permanent Ambassador to Gabon, Freinkel as VP for UGS. Nothing yet on HC Dean. 7-17-13 Interim Provost’s Message July 17, 2013 • PROVOST’S WEBSITE • FORWARD THIS EMAIL Scott Coltrane Colleagues, As I step into my new role as Interim Senior Vice President and Provost, I am delighted to announce…
5/16/2013: Dear colleagues: I invite you to a presentation by Dr. Dennis Galvan, who is a finalist for the position of Vice Provost for International Affairs. Dr. Galvan’s application materials (letter and cv) will be available for your review on Monday, May 20, at http://provost.uoregon.edu/content/vice-provost-international-affairs-finalists. He will give his public presentation…
Update: Berdahl appointed Dennis Galvan as interim VPIA last year. For a while it looked like Pres Gottfredson was going to give him the permanent job without a search, but to his credit he seems to be conducting a thorough search for other potential internal candidates, in accordance with Senate legislation: Dear…
2/24/13. Whoops, sorry, actually that story is about one of the many villas belonging to the Bongo Ondimba family, who recently gave $20 million in Gabonese money to UO for a greenwashing program. The latest story about Treetops and departing OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner is in the RG, here: Interim…
I try to keep this blog focused on sleazy administrators, football scams, and transparency. But every now and then something a bit more consequential comes up. From the comments on a UO Gabon post: Citoyen Libre Gabon Sunday, 02 December, 2012 University of Oregon just accepted a gift of $20M from…
11/26/2012: Colton Totland has a fascinating interview with one of UO’s first students from Gabon, here. Good background material too. Dennis Galvan and the UO administration may be afraid to tell the truth, but our students are not.
11/19/2012 video from camera 4 in our Johnson Hall surveillance system: I’m no environmental economist, but I think a pigouvian tax on the bottles (like the EMU does with coffee cups) would be the efficient solution. But a ban seems like good second best policy. For reasons I don’t understand Gottfredson has…
I see there are two of you. Please put your grading policy in the comments. Today’s Beangram takes green-washing to a new level: Sure, Gabon’s a corrupt one party kleptocracy – but it’s sustainable! Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost Message for November 9, 2012 Colleagues: We are…
Story here. 11/6/2012.
10/14/2012: Longtime readers may recall the bizarre alliance between Richard Lariviere and Ali Bongo Ondimba, the “President” of Gabon. UO was supposed to get $20 million from Gabon – Dennis Galvan helped set this up and is now in charge. The latest from Gabon is that Bongo has decided overnight to…
5/13/2012: The latest from UO’s “Twin Eden”, Gabon: From the Scottish Sun: Rich man, poor nation Poverty-stricken Gabon’s head of state Ali Bongo has asked a Glasgow recruitment agency to find him a live-in manservant for the mansion he shares with his wife. …PRESIDENT Ali Bongo is among the world’s…