5/20/2013: I’m guessing these emails about legislation for a UO Board of trustees – a matter of legitimate public interest to many in the state – are now well past their sell-by date, hence the discount. The Register-Guard originally requested them 10 weeks ago: From: Bill Harbaugh Subject: Re: PR request…
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“UO Foundation resists compromise to include faculty on proposed independent governing boards”From Saul Hubbard in the RG. They’re using money donated to UO to pay Ginny Lang, the lobbyist who is meeting with legislators to fight against faculty participation. Meanwhile President Gottfredson won’t sign the UO constitution that Rob Kyr…
Diane Dietz has the story in the RG: … they’d tried for months to get the administration to hold an open meeting for Oregon Hall employees so that all the workers with physical complaints could air their concerns. But it wasn’t until after DeFazio called UO President Michael Gottfredson that…
4/3/2013: The smart money says she’s billed us more than $200K so far. Now UO’s Public Records Office is charging $300 for people to see copies of the latest invoices from Sharon Rudnick and HLGR: We asked for the documents 12 days ago, and found out about the fee today.…
4/3/2013: Thought I’d repost this Randy classic – no particular reason. 1/29/2013: Oregon has a law on government transparency: SB 2500, passed in 2009. State agencies are required to post a bunch of stuff, including expenditures. The webpage is here. But UO has stopped reporting what they spend on legal services.…
4/1/2013: From an interesting piece by Brent Walth in the Oregon Quarterly in Fall of 2010: The UO board would have the real power—control over tuition and spending, the power to hire and fire the president, and to OK any major initiative or donor-driven project.Lariviere says a local board could…
3/21/2013: The faculty and students are drifting out of town. Now’s the time for JH to pull the crazy shit on us. Gottfredson’s response to the union raise proposal is due starting at 8AM in 122 Knight library. At 4:30 yesterday Bean called an emergency meeting of the ION PI’s,…
3/11/2013: Director, Public Affairs & President’s Office Communications Public and Government AffairsCloses: Open until filled; application review begins April 2, 2013Salary: $60,000 to $85,000
2/23/13: Jeff Mapes has the story in the Oregonian. Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian cut 3 investigators from his office – while keeping his communications director, Bob Estabrook. And like a true flack, Estabrook put out lots of press releases – but it took an investigative reporter from the Oregonian to…
http://policies.uoregon.edu/node/215 2/19/2013.
2/18/2013: Back in 2008 Frohnmayer and Kilkenny were flashing around a consultant’s report predicting that Matt Court Arena revenue would be between $10M and $16M a year. But they were hiding a more substantial report with drastically lower projections: $6M to $8.6. Frohnmayer and Melinda Grier sat on my public…
2/17/2013: Time to get real. Gottfredson’s not going to fire Bean. He’s not even going to fire Geller. It’s up to us faculty. Sure, we could fight with conventional weapons, like Tublitz’s senate resolution. But that would take years. No, this requires a really stupid and futile gesture. And So…
2/17/13: Nick Ekblad of the Oregon Commentator on the recent Senate Transparency Committee meeting: Being asked questions (about transparency, no less) is stressful and intimidating– apparently something that wasn’t in the Public Records Officer job description.
The UO Senate TC charge and membership is here. The committee met this morning. Reporters from the Register Guard, Daily Emerald, and the Commentator were present and voiced their opinion that the public records process at UO was not functioning well, that the fees were discouraging legitimate public inquiry, and…
UO students ask "Where’s our President"?
5/22/2013: From UO’s Public Records log: President’s CalendarRequester: Ekblad, NicholasOrganization: The CommentatorInitial Request Date: 05/22/2013Status: Requesting/Reviewing RecordsI would like to request the president’s calendar from January 8th 2013 to the present President Gottfredson’s public records office made me pay $108 for an earlier version, and wait 2 months. Pdf here. Let’s…