Frohnmayer announces retirement from U of O slot
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:49 AM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After 14 years at Oregon’s flagship university, Dave Frohnmayer is retiring as president of the University of Oregon.
A well-known name across Oregon, Frohnmayer previously served as the state’s attorney general and ran as the Republican candidate for governor in 1990, losing to Democrat Barbara Roberts. A native Oregonian, Frohnmayer oversaw the emergence of the University of Oregon as an athletic powerhouse and a building boom on campus, as well as a fundraising campaign, the largest in Oregon history, that’s raised $759 million so far.
Under Frohnmayer, enrollment jumped by about 20 percent to more than 20,000, the university increased its presence in Portland and around the state, and the school started a program that exempts qualified students in lower-income families from tuition and fees.
But he also struggled against state budget cutbacks, complaints over faculty salaries that didn’t match those at peer universities, concerns over his close relationship with the university’s largest donor, Nike founder Phil Knight, and spiraling tuition costs.
