4/13/2011: (Updated, Verbano ODE story here, bojack.org here.) A random dump of a few months of OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner’s expense accounts. Our Chancellor does not let a croissant pass his lips without charging it to the taxpayers and students. Extrapolating, it looks like about $7000 in per diem charges per…
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4/6/2011: Gov Kitzhaber’s is out selling his “one board to bind them” education plan. The fact that his chief adviser is Springfield Schools head Nancy Golden is a good sign – she’s very impressive. Big step up from Goldschmidt’s Dr. Pernsteiner – whoops, sorry, that’s Mr. Pernsteiner. The RG has…
3/21/2011: The ever helpful bojack.org posts the Oregon statutes on determining voting residence: (3) An elections official may consider, but is not limited to considering, the following factors in determining residency of a person for voter registration purposes: (a) Where the person receives personal mail; (b) Where the person is…
3/14/2011: I’ve been trying to figure out Chancellor Pernsteiner’s OUS contract. Is it possible the $23,320 for “Professional expenses” is for tuition payments, so he can finally get that PhD? Seems a bit high for the University of Phoenix, but I haven’t heard a better explanation. So I made a…
3/8/2011: I’ve been trying to figure out Chancellor Pernsteiner’s OUS contract. Not the $70K a year Treetops mansion and additional $26K housing allowance – that’s just stupidity and greed, respectively. But what about the $23,320 for “Professional expenses”? Is it possible this is for tuition payments, so he can finally…
3/3/2011: In Indiana. He’s the secretary of state. Turns out this is a felony in Oregon too.
3/1/2011: The alumni foundation has a pretty slick website as well. From Inside Oregon: According to the poll’s results, 70 percent of respondents support the creation of dedicated, locally-based governing boards for each of the state’s public universities, as proposed in Senate Bill 559. Also, 71 percent favored allowing universities…
2/28/2010: Bill Graves has a piece in the Oregonian, raising more questions about Pernsteiner and Treetops – but focusing on consolidating OUS into one location. Pernsteiner still isn’t letting anyone inside to take photos. But he is now admitting he spends “a little less” time at Treetops than at his…
2/19/2011: The RG editorial board nails it: The state is no longer keeping faith with the spirit of Church’s gift. In accord with Church’s terms, the gift should be returned. President Lariviere uses his state provided home, McMorran House, regularly for all sorts of official functions. President Frohnmayer did the…
2/15/2011: Lariviere is in Salem today, lobbying the legislature. From David Sarasohn in the Oregonian: “We’re trying to preserve the public status of one of America’s great public universities,” Lariviere told his troops, sounding a Rockne-like tone unusual in the gray-flannel suits of university presidents. “Oregon is ready for this,…
2/11/2011: A small part of the Treetops costs. More later.
2/10/2011: Mrs George T. Gerlinger, a.k.a. Irene Hazard Gerlinger, of UO’s Gerlinger Hall, cautions the legislature on Chancellor Pernsteiner’s power grab:
2/10/2011: Circa 1984, I’m guessing. Keep them coming, commentators. Link to 6mb file of about 25, here:
2/3/2011: We’ve written before on George Pernsteiner’s bizarre path to the top of Oregon’s higher education bureaucracy. Now it appears Kitzhaber has decided to keep him on as chancellor. That’s a bummer. Again, no search, no alternative candidates, no transparency. Given Pernsteiner’s self-interested opposition to Lariviere’s New-Partnership plan, this is…
1/31/2011: George Pernsteiner is pretty much unique among university chancellors in not having a PhD – not that there’s anything wrong with that. So how did he end up pulling down $350K in salary and benefits from a state that’s been slashing higher ed spending? In 2004 OUS Board President…