Update: A hearty congratulations to the losers of the Senate and committee elections. Names of the unfortunate winners are posted here. Agenda: Here and below. Legal services, new course approvals, perhaps a motion calling for amendments to SB270 to incorporate the constitution. Regarding the UO Board legislation, SB 270. FAQ here. Live…
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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…
5/17/3013 Update:The Ways and Means subcommittee meeting is scheduled for 8:30 AM, Salem, Thursday the 23rd. One last chance to let your legislators know how you feel about this power grab. 5/16/2013: Whoops, the video of President Kyr and Peter Keyes, and the resolution below, are from November 2011, at the…
5/16/2013: Presumably Randy Geller is getting competent legal advice somewhere. Frohnmayer wrote the original version. And if it’s HLGR it would help explain Rudnick’s bargaining table outbursts about keeping shared governance out of the contract. HLGR wrote the Nike tax relief bill that Kitzhaber pushed through in special session, so…
5/6/2013: President Michael Gottfredson invites UO faculty and staff to join him for an informal gathering and discussion of the University of Oregon’s governance structure as a public university within the state of Oregon. University officials who have helped shape pending legislation that would authorize institutional boards, and who have…
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/who-should-govern-oregon-universities/ The current draft of SB270 includes a faculty member, but only as a non-voting member. Some recent contributions to the campaign fund of Higher Ed Committee Chair and Senator Mark Hass, courtesy of a curious reader: 1/11/13: American Association of University Professors $2501/10/13: Nike, Inc & Affiliates $1,00010/18/12: Phil…
“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…
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…
4/1/2013: President Gottfredson’s public records office is trying to hide the details of the negotiations over the UO Board of Trustees from the public and the press. Dave Hubin sat on this public records request from the Register Guard for more than two weeks before even giving out an estimate.…
The Senate Interim Committee on Education and Workforce Development, consisting of Chair Senator Mark Hass, Vice-Chair Senator Tim Knopp, Senator Lee Beyer, Senator Jeff Kruse, and Senator Arnie Roblan has approved this amended version of SB270, the independent board legislation. They haven’t voted it out of committee yet, but my guess is that will happen pretty…