In Oregon’s new higher ed boards, a union voice or two
Business will be amply
represented on the new
governing boards.
Among 56 appointees named by
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber to
four newly-created state university
boards, several current and former labor
figures made the cut.
To serve on the Higher Education
Coordinating Commission (HECC),
Kitzhaber nominated David Rives,
president of American Federation of
Teachers(AFT)-Oregon; Ramon
Ramirez, president of the farmworker
advocacy organization PCUN; and Tim
Nesbitt, who was Oregon AFL-CIO
president from 1999 to 2006. And as
non-voting members of HECC,
Kitzhaber nominated Frank Goulard,
president of the Portland Community
College Federation of Faculty and Aca-
demic Professionals (AFT Local 2277),
and Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) Local 503 member Rob
Fullmer, a Portland State University
employee and member of the union bar-
gaining team. Once confirmed by the
Oregon Senate, Rives and the others
will serve on a business-heavy board
that includes Oregon Business Council
president Duncan Wyse and former In-
tel executive Kirby Dyess.
HECC, under a law passed earlier
this year, will oversee a complex sys-
tem that enrolls more than 380,000 stu-
dents in eight public universities, 17
public community colleges, 67 private
for-profit and independent colleges and
universities. Starting July 1, 2014, it will
combine responsibilities from the pre-
vious State Board of Education, State
Board of Higher Education, and Ore-
gon Student Access Commission.
Rives told the Labor Press he will
work to ensure that faculty and staff in-
put are considered in board decisions.
Rives is a PCC instructor of English for
Speakers of Other Languages, and pres-
ident of 12,500-member AFT-Oregon.
He’s also a long-time critic of the shift
by community colleges and state uni-
versities towards greater reliance on
part-time, adjunct, term-to-term faculty
to teach classes.
Business leaders will be in plentiful
supply on the newly-created 14-mem-
ber boards that will govern University
of Oregon (UO), Oregon State Univer-
sity (OSU), and Portland State Univer-
sity (PSU). The boards were established
by legislation earlier this year. But only
one of the boards appears to have a rep-
resentative of organized labor: Kurt
Willcox, SEIU Local 503’s chief bar-
gaining delegate for negotiations with
the Oregon University System, was
nominated to the University of Oregon
board. Other UO board nominees in-
clude the CEO of Roseburg Forest
Products, the wife of Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, Columbia Sportswear
attorney Peter Bragdon, and Andrew
Colas of R&H Colas Construction. The
OSU board includes the CFO of Wey-
erhaeuser, an Intel vice president, the
chair of Reser’s Fine Foods, and the
chief administrative officer for St.
Charles Health System, which last year
defeated a two-year-old union cam-
paign by SEIU. PSU’s board nominees
include former Portland city councilor
Jim Francesconi; former governor Neil
Goldschmidt chief of staff Tom Imeson;
former Oregon Supreme Court chief
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