Remember the Hat: Lariviere Day is today, Nov 21st

Break out your hats and mark the day. Last year on November 21st OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner and Board Chair Matt Donegan came down to UO with their ultimatum. Lariviere refused to resign, so they fired him on instructions from Governor Kitzhaber. Nigel Jaquiss broke the news on the 22nd.



Phil Knight said it best:
"It deeply saddens me that some people in power in our state continue to drive Oregon into a death spiral with their embrace of mediocrity. It's yet another application of Oregon's Assisted Suicide law.
And in case words aren't enough Knight's "Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence" PAC now has more than $400,000 in reserve, ready to buy whatever legislative votes are necessary to get UO its independent board - probably with no faculty representation, unfortunately.

Some of our many posts on this sorry episode in UO history:
KEZI interview with Kitzhaber and excerpts from the OUS Portland firing meeting:


The Faculty Assembly meeting:




Dr. Pernsteiner has scrubbed the OUS minutes website of any mention of the angry 11/28/2012 public meeting with the OUS board and the UO faculty and alumni. Nice try, but UO has posted the full video on Youtube. Everything except what happened in Paul Kelly's secret bathroom caucus, right before the official vote:

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4 comments:

  1. I'm so glad those videos are around, institutional memory can be so ephemeral.

    http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/?s=Lariviere&x=0&y=0

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/education/richard-w-lariviere-university-of-oregon-president-is-ousted.html?scp=1&sq=Lariviere&st=cse&_r=0

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    1. Yes. They should be circulated every year around this time.

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  2. A nice reminder that the real enemy of excellence at UO is not the union but the state of Oregon and its many bureaucratic hacks.

    And BTW, what happened to the "recent comments" section on the sidebar?

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    1. Thanks, I agree, and BTW where is my scotch?

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