At the University of Nike campus store: Rumor central 8/9/2014: Last night’s faculty parties were the happiest we’ve seen since Jim Bean was forced out. Lots of rumors about what Coltrane will do to clean out Johnson Hall. I’ll start things off with the reports that VP for Life Student…
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Matthew Kish has the story in the Portland Business Journal, with links to Wheeler’s own version of Lariviere’s “New Partnership”, to sell bonds and use the money to subsidize tuition. As endorsed by noted economist, electrical engineer, and early American blogger Ben Franklin: “An investment in knowledge pays the best…
Resources and news regarding the 2013 legislation to create a UO Board of Trustees. Work in progress, suggestions welcome. Created 5/17/2013. Last updated 5/29/2013: Hot topics:5/29/2013: Kyr and others are testifying in the Ways and Means subcommittee today. Written testimony here. Supposedly there’s video here: http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/listenset.htm under conference room F.Meanwhile, still…
4/1/2013: President Gottfredson’s public records office is trying to hide the details of the negotiations over the UO Board of Trustees from the public and the press. Dave Hubin sat on this public records request from the Register Guard for more than two weeks before even giving out an estimate.…
The Senate Interim Committee on Education and Workforce Development, consisting of Chair Senator Mark Hass, Vice-Chair Senator Tim Knopp, Senator Lee Beyer, Senator Jeff Kruse, and Senator Arnie Roblan has approved this amended version of SB270, the independent board legislation. They haven’t voted it out of committee yet, but my guess is that will happen pretty…
3/22/2013 updates at bottom. UO Board Oregon Senate hearings, at 1PM 3/21/2013. Background here, live feed here. The original architect of the independent board idea was Michael Redding, who is leaving UO any week now for UIC. So the ball is now in Mike Gottfredson’s court, as those sports boosters…
As introduced in Senate: Proposed revisions to exclude faculty: What ever happened to this? At the Statutory Faculty meeting on November 30, 2011, we passed SFA 11/12-02: Motion for the Establishment of a UO Board of Trustees, which reads: PROCESS FOR FORMING A UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOARD The UO faculty…
of NYU. 3/15/13. The NYT reports: … But during the same period tuition rose and faculty salaries stagnated. His opponents said his emphasis on growth, along with the salaries and perks for a few top employees, were more appropriate to a corporation than a nonprofit institution. The response from the…
3/21/2013: The faculty and students are drifting out of town. Now’s the time for JH to pull the crazy shit on us. Gottfredson’s response to the union raise proposal is due starting at 8AM in 122 Knight library. At 4:30 yesterday Bean called an emergency meeting of the ION PI’s,…
From “Around the O”. Redding was the architect of the New Partnership Plan and a very important figure in the independent board proposal going through the legislature now: Michael Redding, vice president of university relations at the University of Oregon, announced today (March 7) that he has accepted a position at…
… and is now going to stick it in our eye.” That’s a colleague’s response to the rumor that Bean’s new assignment will be interfacing with the UO Board, if the NPPB goes through. 3/5/13.
That would be President Sullivan at UVa. The Daily Progress has the story. The board tried to fire her last year. The governor reappointed Helen Dragas, her worst critic, to the board along with another businessman of the dull type we can expect to get for our board if the New Partnership…
Excellent report from Saul Hubbard in the RG on the prospects for Lariviere’s toned down New Partnership proposal in the Legislature: Some key state lawmakers remain lukewarm about a proposal that would create independent governing boards at the University of Oregon, Portland State University and Oregon State University, partially freeing…
2/14/2013 update: Melody Rose appointed Interim Chancellor. Betsy Hammond has the story. No word yet on whether or not her contract will Give her $23,200 for “professional expenses” and then let her pocket it as extra pay. Require her to pretend she lives at Treetops, and pay for her maid…
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