12/15/2010: Greg Bolt has an excellent summary of the politics of Lariviere’s restructuring plan in the RG. I like the part where the UO Foundation lobbyist calls the argument from OUS Board President Paul Kelly “crazy”. Who appointed Paul Kelly, why does he hate us, and how in the world…
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12/11/2010: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: “We see their position as what is good for the UO with very little consideration for the impact on others in the system,” Kelly said. That’s Paul Kelly, the OUS board chair. The guy who happily signed off on furloughs for the staff,…
12/6/2010: From Alan Brettman in the Oregonian, via Alex Tomchak Scott’s excellent Commentator digest. Worth reading: Knight’s take is that Lariviere wants to privatize UO and raise tuition. Q: What’s next to elevate the status of the University of Oregon? A: I think the athletic department is really the best marketing tool…
12/5/2010: As we wrote this summer, the university funding/autonomy situation in NY is very similar to that in Oregon. There is even a wealthy donor pushing an autonomy proposal and promising a big donation in return. Of course, if Phil Knight and Howard Slusher have made any promises to UO, they…
11/23/2010: President Lariviere has an Op-Ed in the WSJ on his restructuring plan today, here. It’s pretty rare for the Journal to give space to a university President – they usually save it for economists. So I suppose UO Matters can do the same. Here’s the full text: Saving Public…
11/14/2010: President Lariviere’s restructuring plan calls for more UO autonomy and the unique state bond financing plan Michael Redding drew up. The UO Senate Budget Committee report on both is here. Very thorough and is generally very favorable on both counts. They do call for more transparency, particularly with the…
10/18/2010: From the Oregonian editorial board, not from me: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere is asking the Legislature to allow him to run the university as he sees fit, freed from the stifling edicts applied to the rest of state government. It looks now like Lariviere chose not to…
10/15/2010: Anyone who pisses off Pernsteiner is OK in my book. From Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek, who seems to be enjoying the recent reforms to Oregon’s public records law pushed by Michael Kron of the DOJ. OUS doesn’t seem to have gotten the word yet on how to delete emails…
10/13/2010: This article by Nigel Jaquiss below is one UO story I would really rather have not seen in the newspaper. For one thing it’s full of mistakes. For another it attacks the UO staff without any justification. This situation is not their fault, or Lariviere’s fault. It’s Kulongoski’s fault…
9/28/2010: The NRC graduate rankings are out, Chronicle.com has a spiffy interactive tool, probably only accessible from campus. Many UO programs do very well – even without adjusting for shitty faculty pay and the fact that UO research support is 63% of average. The new quantitative methodology adopted by NRC…
9/25/2010: State Treasurer Ted Wheeler has called for a halt to state borrowing, saying the state is at its limit. From Tim Sickinger in the Oregonian. Lariviere’s plan for a $800 million bond would reduce state costs, because the bond payments would surely be limited below current direct appropriations to…
8/26/2010: Pres Lariviere has a new blog post on his UO restructuring plan: The Oregon University System (OUS) has adopted aspects of our proposal, including a plan to seek legislative authority for the creation of campus-level governing boards that would guide individual universities’ operations. Now comes a critical next phase…
8/5/2010: From Eric Kelderman in the Chronicle: One year into her tenure as chancellor of the State University of New York, the State Legislature handed Nancy L. Zimpher her first major political defeat, rejecting a package of regulatory changes meant to allow public universities to earn more money outside of…
8/2/2010: The details of the OUS system’s proposed restructuring plan are becoming clearer. From their Governance and Policy Planning Committee website. They are not proposing to give up much control to UO!: …3. Board will seek new legal status with state that differs from that of a state agency.…9. Tuition…
7/28/2010: The OUS Governance and policy committee takes up several issues at its meeting tomorrow, including more discussion on competing restructuring proposals (they call theirs “the compact”), and also “IMD Changes Stemming from Athletics Issues”. The link includes minutes from last month, with a long discussion on the proposals, quite…