11/28/2011: Time to change the OUS agenda: Please copy, edit as you like, and email to the list below. CC [email protected] and I’ll keep a tally – hard for them to ignore a reasonable request like this, especially now. Dear OUS Board Chair Donegan and OUS board members: I’m writing…
Posts tagged as “OUS Board and Chancellor”
11/27/2011: Maybe we made a difference: Letter #1: 19 legislators sign in support of Lariviere. Letter #2: 8 Eugene area legislators call for Pernsteiner to make no decision at the Monday meeting in Portland, using our GEC complaint closed meeting arguments of insufficient notice. (So, the meeting is on regardless…
11/27/2011: Or maybe the headline should read: “Chancellor Pernsteiner loots Oregon student’s budgets to pay for his mansions, maids and croissants” Sam Stites of the ODE has the scoop on the former interpretation, with some Aaron Marineau photos of the perpetrators fleeing the well manicured, spacious grounds of Treetops, OUS…
11/27/2011: The Oregon GEC is charged with enforcing Oregon law regarding public meetings. We believe the OUS decision to fire President Lariviere in secret without public notice of their meeting and to then call a sham meeting to rubber-stamp their secret decision violates that law. We have emailed have the…
11/23/2011: From Uncle Phil in the Portland Business Journal: “It deeply saddens me that some people in power in our state continue to drive Oregon into a death spiral with their embrace of mediocrity. It’s yet another application of Oregon’s Assisted Suicide law. “For the Chancellor and the State Board…
11/28/2011: The fate of President Richard Lariviere, of his New Partnership, and of UO as a serious research university is up in the air. Path A is control by OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner, followed by gradual but inevitable descent into mediocrity. Path B is Lariviere’s New Partnership, followed by a big…
10/11/2011: Currently the DOJ handles litigation and many other matters for UO and the OUS system. SB 242 devolves responsibility that to OUS and the universities. UO General Counsel Randy Geller wants to subcontract a chunk of this work out. His request for proposals was augmented by an amendment from…
9/24/2011: Breneman is an economist at the UVA Ed school, I think Pernsteiner hired him to consult on the OUS alternative to Lariviere’s new partnership. Or maybe UO hired him to consult on the new partnership. Lariviere wants a UO board, and SB 242 allows one, but Pernsteiner doesn’t want…
9/24/2011: Roundup of recent developments in Gov Kitzhaber’s reorganization of Oregon Education. Worth reading it all, from Bill Graves in the Oregonian: Gov. John Kitzhaber recently appointed the powerful Oregon Education Investment Board, which he will chair and which will control the budget for education in Oregon from preschool through…
9/23/2011: OK, OK, you can keep the croissants and the maid service. Just put down the knife, pick up the pen, and sign your golden parachute retirement contract. (click for video).
9/12/2011: I won’t have a change to look through these for a bit, entire pdf here. One sample below. Kenton is following Pernsteiner‘s lead, billing OUS for every croissant he can. Read Steve Duin’s Oregonian post on Kenton’s new contract. Last year’s story on Pernsteiner here is just as damning.
9/7/2011: I don’t get it. First the two Diane Dietz stories, now this editorial. They repeat Di Saunder’s misinformation, put Bean’s quote in the worst possible context, and say nothing about the raises the OUS administrators took for themselves while they were forcing furloughs on the UO staff. Nothing on…
9/2/2011: I’m sorry, but there’s no polite way to state that simple fact: More docs on Pernsteiner here. And more on order from OUS. We also pay his mortgage. And thanks to an anonymous commenter for explaining what’s really going on here: The fact is that the UO would like…
9/3/2011: That’s the headline of today’s RG story by Diane Dietz: When University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere returns from today’s football game in Texas, he will have to produce a report justifying why the UO gave pay raises worth about $1.9 million a year to about 390 administrators several…
9/2/2011: Sure, but this RG article by Diane Dietz, and the quotes by SEIU member Star Holmberg, miss the point. The union is not bargaining with UO, Jim Bean, or Richard Lariviere. They have no authority over this contract. OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner and Vice Chancellor Kenton call the shots. So,…