Update: As a commenter notes, this post is pretty far off base. More here, I hope more accurate. Out here in Oregon our state board fires presidents when they *do* raise faculty pay. UVA Rector Helen Dragas writing on the Board of Visitors’ decision to fire UVA President Teresa Sullivan…
Posts tagged as “Lariviere Firing”
2/1/2012: OUS Board Chair Matt Donegan is still cut up from the Portland fight, and for all his bravado he apparently hasn’t shown his face in Eugene since the meeting where he and Allyn Ford told Lariviere the board had decided to fire him. So Donegan has sent us a…
1/31/2012: It’s more than 2 months since the OUS board fired Richard Lariviere. Board Chair Matt Donegan told us repeatedly at the Portland meeting that he was confident the board could find a qualified replacement quickly. But Chancellor George Pernsteiner still has not even been able to assemble a search…
1/8/2012: Back in November, Bob Berdahl wrote in the RG: If you want to be president of the University of Oregon, be prepared to knuckle under to the chancellor and the board and be wary of the promises of the governor. Now Berdahl has the job of helping the chancellor…
12/20/2011. Last week it was Ed Ray at OSU. Now it’s Wim Weiwel at PSU. Next week I suppose we’ll learn that Pernsteiner did it too. From the Bill Graves Oregonian story: Portland State University faculty will get as much as a 4.1 percent pay raise for each of the…
12/16/2011: Excellent interview with Jack Stripling in the Chronicle You may need to be on campus for the link to work. I had plenty of problems with him as president. But I like the man because he’s witty and genuine. I admire him because he’s smart and because he cared…
12/14/2011. That would be OSU President Ed Ray. From the Corvallis Gazette Times: OSU will, however, raise its faculty pay by 4 percent starting in January 2012, as a means of keeping good faculty and attracting top-notch new faculty members. The faculty also will receive pay raises in January 2013.…
12/11/2011: Greg Bolt has a long story in the RG on how the Lariviere firing has forged new leadership and solidarity at UO: History professor Ian McNeely, a member of the UO Senate’s executive committee, said it has been inspiring to see how people have put aside differences to work…
comes out in support of Berdahl in the Oregonian. 12/7/2011.
12/7/2011: Allan Brettman of the Oregonian has a good piece: For donors like Lorry Lokey and Vinton “Slim” Sommerville, Lariviere’s ouster was a stunning blow that no amount of explanation of process and political niceties can soothe. “It’s the governor’s fault and I hope the voters remember this two years…
12/6/2011: He is “moving forward on education”. He “feels a tremendous sense of urgency”. He will let UO community have “meaningful input in the transition and search” for new Prez – thanks. He won’t do anything about independent boards until 2013. Wow. No reason to read this, we’ve heard it…
12/6/2011: Starts at 9AM, blogged live to the extent possible. Pernsteiner: Plan A is Berdahl. Will you please not blog anything about the rest of this meeting? UO Matters: Maybe, maybe not. That’s up to the faculty. Pernsteiner: And if the board does not appoint Berdahl president, what will you…
12/3/2011: From his narrative of the “Rise and Fall of Richard Lariviere”, in the Oregonian: On Nov. 17, the board met to decide whether to allow state universities to have independent boards, a cornerstone reform that Lariviere advocated. “This was the defining issue, the cause of so much acrimony,” Donegan…
12/3/2011: My prediction of Jim Bean‘s term as UO president, if the rumors that the board will appoint him next week turn out to be true.
12/2/2011: Released 3PM Friday. Pdf here. Money graphs: Letter from Senate Executive Committee to the Statutory Faculty regarding UO Interim Presidential Appointment: December 2, 2011 Dear Chancellor Pernsteiner and Members of the State Board of Higher Education, The UO Senate Executive Committee urges you to approach Robert Berdahl to become…