1/15/2011: The session starts Feb 1. The Oregon House Higher Education Committee is working on a resolution to establish yet another task force, with LC 288: Establishes Task Force on Higher Education Governance and Coordi-nation. Directs task force to analyze issues of higher education coordinationand governance and report findings and…
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6/3/2011: There were three bills in the legislature for higher ed reform this year. Gov. Kitzhaber’s bills to replace OUS and Dr. Pernsteiner Mr. Pernsteiner with a new K-20 “Educational Investment Board”http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB909/http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/hb2962/ UO President Lariviere’s proposals to create a free and independent UO Board of Directors focused on improving UO’s…
3/14/2011: From the Chronicle, “Flagships just want to be left alone”: … “In all cases, the issue is about money, power, and control,” Mr. Lombardi wrote in an e-mail. “It’s no surprise,” he added, “that the main campuses of many systems now look to leave their systems in the hopes…
3/5/2011: The editorial board’s endorsement is, unfortunately, anything but unqualified: The UO plan is an essential acknowledgment that if Oregon is to have any chance of achieving its ambitious higher education goals, it must get more — much more — private support for its public system. We know the UO…
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,…
1/28/2011: An Op-Ed in the ODE by ASUO Pres Amelie Rousseau and Mario Parker Milligan (OSA) on the new partnership plan: … President Lariviere is fond of pointing out that tuition has risen an average of 7.5 percent over the past 38 years. What he’s not so fond of pointing…
1/27/2011: Colton Totland in the ODE does a good interview: PB: I agreed to co-sponsor the proposal because I think it is very important to have this conversation in the legislature. A subject is always open to new information, but at this point I am convinced that the funding proposal…
Campus Town Hall on New Partnership Unfortunately, neither the bond nor the UO specific board parts of the plan have been getting much support outside UO. This will be a chance for Pres Lariviere to give us an update of where he thinks this plan is going. January 26, 2011Time:…
1/19/2011: Tony Van Vliet is a serious guy with a long and distinguished career as a professor at OSU and as a real public servant. And he is pissed. Van Vliet was state representative from 1975-95, was a Ways and Means Committee member for 17 years and later was a…
1/19/2011: Not good news. From Stefan Verbano in the Emerald: The Oregon Student Association board of directors voted unanimously last Saturday to combat the University’s New Partnership, arguing that excluding public officials from the school’s governance process threatens its accountability to the state. … “There has been no mention of…
1/11/2011: Norm Brown is chairman of the board of trustees for the University of Oregon Foundation. Fred Poust is president of the board of directors for the University of Oregon Alumni Association. From their Op-Ed in the Oregonian on the UO new partnership plan: … To address declining funding and…
12/28/2010: Courtesy of BoJack.org. The poll is here. Presumably the OHSU foundation paid for it. Seems pointless, unless the point is they will waste money to show how badly they want independence. Silly. I hope UO is not going to do something similar. People already think we are wasting money.
Update: Today the RG prints an Op-Ed from Director George Leef of the Pope Center for Higher Ed Policy opposing Lariviere’s plan: Another part of his plan is that university spending of this revenue stream will be overseen by a publicly appointed board that would guard against waste. The trouble…
12/21/2010: This is *one sentence* from the Oregonian blog post pushing Paul Kelly and George Pernsteiner’s OUS higher ed plan, written by their spokesperson Di Saunders. Read this and ask if these people should be in charge of higher ed in Oregon: Creating advantages, efficiencies, and cost control through structural…
12/15/2010: Excerpting from Bill Graves in the Oregonian: SALEM – A bipartisan legislative task force Wednesday approved a plan that would give Oregon public universities more autonomy while bringing them under the authority of a new Higher Education Coordinating Commission. The proposed Higher Education Coordinating Commission would set goals and…