7/28/2013: Read my lips: President Gottfredson and his administrators are the University of Oregon, not the faculty and students. And after a full year on the job, President Gottfredson still doesn’t know if he’s willing to shift the millions in athletics subsidies back to academic purposes. Story in the Sunday RG…
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7/23/2013. Her full letter to Kitzhaber’s education aide Ben Cannon, the man who hired the now disgraced Rudy Crew, is here. At the bargaining session yesterday Sharon Rudnick argued that having this lone, potentially non-voting faculty member on the board (and two more on the “achievement contracts” committee was “better than…
7/18/2013: SB 270 gives Kitzhaber a month to appoint the UO Board Trustees. They don’t have any real authority until 7/1/2014, but for better or worse their names will be indelibly associated with the faculty union bargaining agreement, the lack of transparency in JH, and other big UO announcements such…
7/11/2013: That’s according to the ethics law summary posted on Governor Kitzhaber’s website: Obvious conflict of interest, might lead the trustees to make decisions favoring athletics over academics. But then those ethics rules are supposed to hold for all public officials – including junketeers like Lorraine Davis, Robin Holmes, Jamie…
7/8/2013: My understanding is the UO Trustees are to be appointed and in place by this September. They will presumably then have semi-secret meetings for a year, until they take power in July 2014. Former Interim Provost Jim Bean is working on the by-laws now. I’m sure the lobbying is…
ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz passes on this statement: SB 270 is crucial because the climate of higher education in Oregon is so unstable and unpredictable, and we need that local autonomy and flexibility to continue to advance excellence in higher education in Oregon. More than any other reason, SB 270…
7/3/2013: Eder Campuzano has the story in the ODE, vote is 23 to 7.
6/27/2013: The legislative website has the amendments, here. Saul Hubbard of the RG explains the deal: Addressing a key sticking point, the bill now requires one student seat, one faculty seat and one classified-employee staff seat on each 11- to 15-member university board. The student seat would have voting rights, while…
6/26/2013: Starts at 3pm, scant details here, agenda here (3rd and 4th items).
6/20/2013: Louise Bishop, English and HC and co-chair of the FAC this past year, defends Gottfredson in an op-ed in the RG here, in reaction Gordon Sayre. 6/13/2013: An Op-Ed in the RG by prof of English and former senate president Gordon Sayre: … We may never know why Lariviere was…
6/16/2013: And are holding up SB 270 until they get it. The RG has the story from Jonathan Cooper of the AP. In totally unrelated news, the AP reports that bite marks are too unreliable to be used in court.
6/16/2013: Those who have heard Bean babble on about online-ed and MOOCs will love this proposal for MOOAs. (Thanks to commenter for link.) And by popular demand here’s the budget for LCB: Instructional salary expenditures up 44% since 2008, administrative costs up 194%. And that’s before the $320K + OPE…
6/7/2013: Diane Dietz has the scoop: The UO would need $1.7 million a year to hire 11 new employees to support its board and also perform financial functions the new entity would require, according to a UO analysis. Funny, Rudnick didn’t mention this new cost at the bargaining session Thursday.…
6/4/2013: That would be Ed Ray at OSU. Video below. UO President Gottfredson’s attempt to do the same is described here.
Resources and news regarding the 2013 legislation to create a UO Board of Trustees. Work in progress, suggestions welcome. Created 5/17/2013. Last updated 5/29/2013: Hot topics:5/29/2013: Kyr and others are testifying in the Ways and Means subcommittee today. Written testimony here. Supposedly there’s video here: http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/listenset.htm under conference room F.Meanwhile, still…