7/28/2013: Laura Fosmire from the Salem Statesman Journal has the story, and some sad quotes: Public access to information: F This was Oregon’s worst score, largely because of a culture of confusion and misunderstanding stemming from the more than 400 exemptions in the public records law. As time has gone on,…
Posts tagged as “Michael Gottfredson”
7/28/2013: Read my lips: President Gottfredson and his administrators are the University of Oregon, not the faculty and students. And after a full year on the job, President Gottfredson still doesn’t know if he’s willing to shift the millions in athletics subsidies back to academic purposes. Story in the Sunday RG…
7/26/2013: “Around the O” releases details on Gottfredson’s official calendar. Just kidding, it’s a puff piece about his trip to Fort Rock: Participants in this year’s tour included UO President Michael Gottfredson and his wife, Karol; Interim Provost Scott Coltrane and his wife, Wendy; Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and her…
7/19/2013: And more from Lariviere, on the need for additional faculty raises – written *after* he implemented the equity raises that helped get him fired: Frankly, the single most important action the UO could take to ensure its long-term success is to finish the faculty salary equity project during FY12…
6/20/2013: Louise Bishop, English and HC and co-chair of the FAC this past year, defends Gottfredson in an op-ed in the RG here, in reaction Gordon Sayre. 6/13/2013: An Op-Ed in the RG by prof of English and former senate president Gordon Sayre: … We may never know why Lariviere was…
6/17/2013: Today I got this email: From: President Gottfredson Subject: RE: Protect and Preserve Shared Governance at UODate: June 17, 2013 3:03:25 PM PDTTo: William Harbaugh Dear Colleague, Thank you for your email about the ongoing faculty contract negotiations. I agree that this first-ever collective bargaining agreement is critical…
Update: Can Oregon’s flagship university stay in the AAU? If so what do we need to do? That seems like a question of public interest. But not to President Gottfredson, whose public records office is trying to charge UO student journalists $94 for the records: Public records fees charged by the…
6/16/2013: Those who have heard Bean babble on about online-ed and MOOCs will love this proposal for MOOAs. (Thanks to commenter for link.) And by popular demand here’s the budget for LCB: Instructional salary expenditures up 44% since 2008, administrative costs up 194%. And that’s before the $320K + OPE…
6/16/2013 update: It’s not an official opinion from the GC’s office, but I have a feeling it’s all that we’re going to get. Obviously today’s embarassing RG story on public records at UO is the only way to get President Gottfredson to move: On SundayJun 16, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Gregory…
6/8/2013: Powerful Op-Ed from UO undergrad Joe Jacklin in the RG on the investiture demonstration: This was not some haphazard show of frustration where we all celebrated the fact that we’d caused a disruption. As reported in Diane Deitz’s May 31 article, we went so far as to apologize to Gottfredson…
6/4/2013: That would be Ed Ray at OSU. Video below. UO President Gottfredson’s attempt to do the same is described here.
5/20/2013: I’m guessing these emails about legislation for a UO Board of trustees – a matter of legitimate public interest to many in the state – are now well past their sell-by date, hence the discount. The Register-Guard originally requested them 10 weeks ago: From: Bill Harbaugh Subject: Re: PR request…
Knight Library Room 101, 3:00‐5:00 pm Prologue: Be there – two key motions: Adoption of a rational Legal Representation Policy, introduced by Senate VP Margie Paris. (See here for Randy Geller’s attempt). Legislation to require the administration to recoup the annual $1.8M cost of athlete-only tutoring and the $500K cost…
5/6/2013: President Michael Gottfredson invites UO faculty and staff to join him for an informal gathering and discussion of the University of Oregon’s governance structure as a public university within the state of Oregon. University officials who have helped shape pending legislation that would authorize institutional boards, and who have…
UO students ask "Where’s our President"?
5/22/2013: From UO’s Public Records log: President’s CalendarRequester: Ekblad, NicholasOrganization: The CommentatorInitial Request Date: 05/22/2013Status: Requesting/Reviewing RecordsI would like to request the president’s calendar from January 8th 2013 to the present President Gottfredson’s public records office made me pay $108 for an earlier version, and wait 2 months. Pdf here. Let’s…