6/19/2012: The NYT reports on Dragas’s firing of UVA Pres: The board’s united front showed its first serious cracks, as four of the 15 voting members sent an emissary on Sunday night to the president, Teresa Sullivan, to discuss the terms on which she would stay, according to people briefed…
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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…
5/23/2012 update. The list of supporters for this PAC is growing, and as a commenter reports it now includes a Lillis. Updates here. I don’t know that Bob Berdahl deserves credit, but it wouldn’t surprise me. This is part of what it will take to move the independent UO board…
4/23/2012: OUS dockets here, his proposal for responsibilities here. It’s a sham. Sam Stites ODE story here. 100mb mp3 of meeting here.
4/5/2012: From Betsy Swanback in ODE. Good quotes.
3/11/2012: Whole letter here, well worth reading: In the worst instances, universities with local boards meander toward excellence, if they are lucky. They often must accommodate the tastes of local board members while trying to execute longer term plans. My experience with a local board and with the NCAA leads…
2/19/2012: Columnist David Sarasohn: In the middle of the 1990s, when Oregon K-12 funding was a question of whether programs would be thrown overboard right away or the following year, Portland school superintendent Jack Bierwirth was asked why he had ever decided to come here. He explained that he’d been…
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…
1/30/2012: None of the competing bills get even a mention in this Bill Graves story on the likely legislative agenda. Session starts Wed. Bills must be out of committee in 2 weeks.
1/23/2012: Mostly deal with athletic scandals. And peanut butter. Penn State, from the Chronicle: The meeting of the trustees, which was watched by several thousand people on the Internet and had been moved to a larger venue to accommodate members of the public and media, lasted for several hours. It…
1/20/2012: Which would be getting UO out from under Pernsteiner’s thumb. Bill Graves story here. Read it all. Job #1 is finding UO a new president. Pernsteiner was supposed to announce the search committee this week, but no news yet.
January 17th: Lane County Legislators Host Town Hall Meeting! Senator Beyer and Representatives Barnhart, Beyer and Hoyle will meet with community members, students and faculty to discuss the upcoming February Special Session and other issues raised by the audience. (Due to a scheduling conflict Senator Prozanski and Representatives Holvey may…
1/16/2012: Ad posted in the Chronicle today: The Chief Education Officer will serve as the OEIB’s chief executive in the creation, implementation and management of an integrated and aligned public education system from pre-school through post-secondary education. The initial phase of the Chief Education Officer’s tenure will require visionary leadership,…
1/15/2011: The session starts Feb 1. The Oregon House Higher Education Committee is working on a resolution to establish yet another task force, with LC 288: Establishes Task Force on Higher Education Governance and Coordi-nation. Directs task force to analyze issues of higher education coordinationand governance and report findings and…
The OEIB website is here, pretty transparent. This is interesting, on local boards, from the 1/3/2011 meeting: 1/3/2011: In all the craziness around the Lariviere firing, I think I missed this 12/1/2011 Betsy Hammond story on the extremely confusing situation involving Kitzhaber’s plans for governance of Oregon education. Raises more…