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Legislative higher ed "reform" efforts, and Eugene public meeting this Tuesday at 7PM

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…

Pernsteiner’s SB242 bill advances

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…

Lariviere and Nike v. Pernsteiner and bureaucracy

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,…

a sobering opinion

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…

Oregon Student Association opposes Lariviere plan

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…

A cry for help from OUS

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…

More on restructuring

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…