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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Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Thursday 3/21/2013. Postscript: Prologue: (Comparator gaps by dept here, what to cut here, Moffitt’s secret budget here.) You might have thought Michael Gottfredson would have asked Kitzhaber for authority to deal with UO’s faculty pay problem, before he agreed to take the UO president’s…
11/22/2011: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week has the scoop: WW has learned that Oregon University System board members met with University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere on Monday, telling him that when his contract expires in June, it will not be renewed. Governor John Kitzhaber surprised Lariviere by affirming that…
9/19/2011: Good questions from Tyree Harris, and some detailed answers, read it all here. A sample: ODE: What progress do you hope to make this year with the New Partnership? What progress do you think can be made given the new terms of your contract? RL: My contract doesn’t have…
6/17/2011: Full Oregonian editorial here: It’s possible that the rancor between the board and the president is already too deep to produce the kind of unified chorus that the system needs. But that would also be a loss. Lariviere, although leaving a trail of broken china in his wake, has…
6/17/11: From the Statesman Journal editors blog: – President Lariviere was absent for three of the five full State Board of Higher Education meetings during the 2010-11 fiscal year. – His new contract has not been written but these are the conditions read during the board’s meeting by telephone this…
6/15/2011: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere must become a team player, show up at board meetings and stop putting his university at odds with the state system if he wants to keep his job, says the State Board of Higher Education. … (UO…
6/14/2011 update: A commenter forwards us one UO connection: The US Ambassador to Gabon, Eric Benjaminson, is a UO history grad. 6/14/2011 update: Latest word is that the details of the donation are not set, and may be government funds – though apparently in Gabon there is no distinction between…
3/29/2010: More on the verbal contract is here. Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian reports: The Oregon Department of Justice is reviewing the resignation agreement between Mike Bellotti and the University of Oregon, a handshake-based deal that calls for $2.3 million in payments to the former Oregon athletic director. The agreement…