8/9/2014 update: Christian Wihtol reports in the RG that UO was not obligated to pay Gottfredson $940K. 8/8/2014 2:30 pm update: Still a beautiful day out there. Gottfredson’s separation agreement, here. $940K, half in cash within 5 days. Dr. Gottfredson agrees not to sue The University or its employees 8/8/2014…
Posts tagged as “Presidential search”
Some links (Also see ODE) Oregonian on search and Gottfredson.http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2012/06/michael_gottfredson_sole_final.html All UC salary info is online, a consequence of the 2006 Berdahl scandal. Orange County Register search on Gottfredson Excellent google review‘s of his influential 1990 book, “A General Theory of Crime”. UCI puff piece Brief interivew on leaving, by…
6/7/2012: Word down at the faculty club is that the search has narrowed to an external candidate with serious academic chops, and that he/she may be on campus next week. Sounds like good news, and not a moment too soon.
5/24/2012: From an email sent out today by Bob Berdahl: … As you know, my term as interim president ends September 15. I am optimistic about our search for the University of Oregon’s 17th president. I have begun preparing for the transition by convening a campus readiness team that is…
5/17/2012: This was Lariviere’s first mistake. Jim Bean as chair – Bellotti, Grier, Martinez! A few months later Jim Bean had managed to move from interim to permanent provost without any search or campus discussion. With Bean’s advice Lariviere kept on Grier and Dyke, and then he hired people like…
5/14/2012: From Mary Carmichael in the Boston Globe: A growing number of colleges seem to share his faith in the value of outsider presidents, PhD or no PhD. Twenty percent of college presidents in the United States now come from fields outside academia, a sharp increase from 13 percent just…
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…
3/7/2012: Just 3 months after he and Matt Donegan fired Lariviere, Pernsteiner now has a job ad posted in the Chronicle. Short version: a) Pernsteiner lets UO keep claim to be flagship AAU and the UO Foundation agrees not to purse public meetings and state audit complaints against him. (Sorry…
2/3/2012: That’s the word from down at the union hall. He’s told Pernsteiner to appoint UO SEIU local President Gary Malone to the UO president’s search committee. Dr. Pernsteiner blamed his staff for the “mistake” and will jump right on it. N=22. 24 if you count P and F.
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…
1/20/2012: 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.
1/11/012, 12-2PM Ford: “We want best president” Pernsteiner: Search committee names have been contacted, search consultant proposals due Friday. Search consultant searches and sells UO. Will be picked in a few weeks. P: Confident we can get a good president. What does he mean by good? P: My macro forecast…
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…
12/28/2011: Pernsteiner has been consulting with Senate President Kyr and acting Provost Lorraine Davis (WTF?) on names. It will be a closed search, so it’s important the committee include people the faculty trusts. There will be 15 or so people, 5 faculty. Pernsteiner gets the final pick, probably early next…
12/16/2011: Today Senate President Kyr sent out a call asking for nominations for the Presidential Search Committee. Responses are needed by Sunday. My understanding is that this committee will be formally appointed by Pernsteiner, but that Kyr will make the nominations with input from Johnson Hall. There will be 5…