12/1/2012: From Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Gov. John Kitzhaber proposes to create a large state agency, the Department of Post-Secondary Education, to control state funding for the state’s seven public universities, 17 community colleges, need-based college scholarships and Oregon Health & Science University. The surprise announcement, never floated publicly…
Posts tagged as “OUS Board and Chancellor”
From Diane Dietz in the RG on the proposed bill. Read it all, if just for the insulting Matt Donegan quotes. 10/5/2012.
to take public comments, this Thursday:
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…
Update: 6/1/2012: Colton Totland reports in the RG that OUS has figured out how to pay for Provost Bean’s beamer and sabbatical, and Pernsteiner’s mortgage too. Still no plan from UO to increase faculty hiring or build new classrooms. Pathetic. 5/30/2012: The ODE reports: The University will submit it’s proposal…
Two new OUS board appointees. From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: James Middleton, president of Central Oregon Community College, will replace Preston Pulliams, president of Portland Community College, on the board beginning July 1. Orcilia Zuniga Forbes, an experienced higher education administrator who most recently served as vice president of…
5/2/2012: From the official Oregon Secretary of State website: OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner owns a house in Portland (OUS gives him $26,000 in state funds to help with the mortgage) and he spends most of his working time at his office at PSU. But he votes in Lane County. He’s…
From the Amherst Bulletin: The vice chancellor for academic strategies for the Oregon University System since 2010, Andrews is one of four finalists for chancellor of the state’s flagship campus. She was the last of the candidates to visit the Amherst campus this week. Chancellor is the UMass system equivalent…
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…
1/19/2012: From the OUS website:
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…
1/13/2012: This will make 8 years since Goldschmidt appointed him interim, never a search. Full letter here. Bad news for UO. It will be hard to hire a strong president who is willing to work for Pernsteiner. Our best hope now is to get the Lane County Delegation to get…
Important to get a big turnout and lots of tough questions – particularly at the Gerlingher reception at 5PM. What are Pernsteiner and the Board willing to promise, in writing, to a new UO President regarding UO autonomy? 1/11/2012: Hear Berdahl explain how he plans to help get UO free…