11/29/2011: Steve Duin writes on OUS fail. Bill Graves of the Oregonian captures the craziness. People don’t often talk back to pandering buzzword spewing politicians, or laugh in their faces. We’d be a better country if we did: Board member James Francesconi … “We cannot be a great state without…
Posts tagged as “Pernsteiner”
11/30/2011: Not everyone had a chance to speak their piece today. Send me more, I’ll post them. Chancellor Pernsteiner, At Monday’s meeting, the Board of Directors said that trust is vital to the relationship between our University and the OUS, and I agree. But the past few days have shown…
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…
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…
11/25/2011: No, I don’t mean President Lariviere’s contract. I mean Chancellor Pernsteiner’s. Governor Kitzhaber can’t be too happy with Pernsteiner, after he sold him a simple plan to get rid of a man he described as troublemaker with no faculty support, which then blew up in Kitzhaber’s face. Time is…
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…
11/22/2011: Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week has the scoop: WW has learned that Oregon University System board members met with University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere on Monday, telling him that when his contract expires in June, it will not be renewed. Governor John Kitzhaber surprised Lariviere by affirming that…
11/1/2011: Word down by the Duck Pond is that the Occupy Eugene folks are going to take Chancellor Pernsteiner up on his gracious offer to host the whole movement at his official state owned mansion, Treetops, at 2237 Spring Blvd. Dr. Pernsteiner is quoted in a flyer making the rounds:…
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…
9/14/2011: And it’s a big lawn: I wonder if his gardener and housekeeper take furlough days – how would our Chancellor’s kid’s friends cope?
9/14/2011: A non-random sample says yes. They don’t buy Pernsteiner and Kenton’s call for “shared sacrifice”. Does anyone recall any previous staff strikes? This Greg Bolt story repeats the stories about UO raises, does not mention Lariviere’s overtime adjustments or the benefits and retroactive benefits the OUS bosses got. There’s…
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.
9/9/2011: I’d hoped to have copies of the last 3 months of expense reports for OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner and his VP Jay Kenton to post here today. I made a public records request for them 4 weeks ago, and I paid OUS for them. But the copies I received…
9/7/2011: #2 in a continuing series on OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner’s plans to rebuild Oregon’s higher education system: Sweet deal George. Must be nice. Many people in Oregon are not so lucky, and can’t count on their buddies on the OUS Board to spend other people’s money covering their bills:
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…