Published yesterday, 1/23/2013, here: Higher education officials should be less concerned with secrecy and more concerned with making certain the public has a full understanding of the dynamics that have contributed to the financial woes of Oregon’s universities and how hard it will be for them to meet the challenges that…
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Christian Whithol has the story in the RG: Oregon’s top higher education officials are engaged in a hypothetical analysis of financial pressures that the state’s public universities, including the University of Oregon, face over the next few years. But they want to keep the projections secret. … Pernsteiner said he’d…
President Gottfredson must have had some bad experiences with leaked emails while he was at Irvine. I don’t know anyone who has yet received a substantive email from him. But he does read email – and apparently he’s a bit sensitive even about that. When I first asked for Randy…
1/13/2013: I wrote about the incident below back in 2011. JSTOR decided not to prosecute, but US Attorney Carmen Ortiz did – asking for 30 years imprisonment. Aaron Swartz committed suicide a few days ago, at age 26. The NYT has a story here and open access websites have many…
Short version:This “administrative advisory group” will not even make a written report to Gottfredson. Wouldn’t want to leave a paper trail on their transparency recommendations! Meanwhile JH is spending tens of thousands of tuition dollars on “Around the O” PR spin, while nickeling and dimeing journalists and bloggers trying to…
Both came from public records requests for invoices from the same firm, for their work on NCAA infractions: UO’s redactions UT’s redactions Randy Geller has gotten much cockier lately, for Sharon Rudnick’s invoices he redacts everything. Richard Lariviere made a point of saying that the General Counsel’s office was out of…
in the Johnson Hall Conference room. This is the administrative group Dave Hubin set up to try and justify Berdahl’s decision to revoke Lariviere’s transparency efforts. Dave had told me the meetings would be open, but must have forgot to add me to the email list. It’s not really open…
12/12/12 update: Lane County Chief Deputy DA Patricia Perlow has asked for a two week extension to respond to my petition on Geller’s redactions, which I’ve said yes to: From: PERLOW Patty Subject: RE: PR Petition for documents on UO General Counsel response to PR requestDate: December 12, 2012 10:33:16…
By popular request. Submit your guesses for what’s behind UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s redactions to Sharon Rudnick’s most recent invoice. Prizes for the most and least accurate answers! (For more serious info on the petition to the Lane County DA for unredacted invoices, see here.) Any prize disputes to…
Seems like the FERPA excuse Randy Geller has been using for UO violations is wearing thin: CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina released more than 2,500 pages of documents relating to the NCAA investigation into the football team, including hand-written responses to the NCAA from former Hillside star Greg Little, more…
It seems like a simple public records request: I am asking for any contracts or invoices for legal advice or consulting, legal or otherwise, relating to the faculty union, from 3/20/2012 to the present. 10 days, no response. 11/5/2012.
President Gottfredson has passed the public records buck to Dave Hubin, who has passed it to a committee. It’s a mixed bag of appointees, mostly administrators, ranging from apathetic to obviously conflicted to excellent. None have recent experience making public records requests to UO. Their charge – or at least the…
That would be Graham Spanier, former Penn State President, for perjury and obstruction of justice. Spanier had testified in the legislature in 2007 against transparency and public records access for Penn State – after he knew about Sandusky. What are the chances this will encourage UO President Gottfredson to start forcing…
The Daily Emerald reports their audit of UO public records requests finds significant problems with the UO General Counsel’s compliance with the law. But the president is denying anything is wrong: “If there were a persistent violator or you had the door slammed in your face, that would indicate training…
Be afraid, you lurking forces of darkness. Be very afraid. And while you’re at it Commentators, be sure to ask Dave Hubin and the public records office for those EMU election emails, because the ODE never will. 10/26/2012.