What is Richard W. Lariviere?
{{complex|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox academic |name = Richard W. Lariviere |image= Richard_Lariviere.jpg |birth_place = [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Illinois]], US |nationality= [[United States]] |workplaces = [[University of Texas at Austin]] (1982–2006)<br />[[University of Kansas]] (2006–2009)<br />[[University of Oregon]] (2009–2011)<br />[[Field Museum]] (2012–) |alma_mater = [[University of Iowa]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]]) (1972)<br />[[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD.]]) (1978) |spouse = Janis Worcester (1984–present) }} '''Richard W. Lariviere''' was President of the [[University of Oregon]] (OU) from 2009 to 2011. He is a Life Member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. He became president of OU in 2009. Lariviere's contract was not renewed in 2011 amid a racketeering scandal in the OU Dean of Students office. <ref>https://news.yahoo.com/ph-d-student-files-racketeering-suit-against-university-114211362.html{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Lariviere has stated that he will remain at OU as a tenured faculty member. ==Biography== Lariviere was Visiting Lecturer in the [[South Asia]] Regional Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania from 1978-79. He was a Visiting Professor at the [[University of Iowa]] from 1980-1982. Lariviere was dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] from 1999 to 2006.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://lariviere.uoregon.edu/biography|title=Richard W. Lariviere|accessdate=January 8, 2012}}</ref> He was executive vice chancellor and provost at the [[University of Kansas]] from 2006 to 2009.<ref name=bio/> As OU president, Lariviere answered to a number of different groups. He ran into two problems: OU salaries and OU governance. Before Lariviere arrived at OU, salaries were frozen for several years. OU could not compete with other colleges. In February 2011, Oregon Governor [[John Kitzhaber]] asked all the public universities in Oregon to limit