Multiple media outlets in Oregon are reporting former Kansas University Provost Richard Lariviere will not have his contract renewed as president of the University of Oregon.

The (Portland) Oregonian newspaper reported that Lariviere was disappointed with the decision of the State Board of Higher Education to ask him to leave his job by the end of the school year.

“It comes down to a disagreement about the future of the University of Oregon,” Lariviere told the newspaper. “It is a disappointment.”

Lariviere was KU’s provost from 2006 to 2009, a position he took after leaving his job as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas-Austin.

While at KU, he led the reorganizations of the graduate school and the School of Fine Arts and an effort to expand the School of Pharmacy.

He also ruffled feathers with his brusque style, and led KU through a number of budget cuts during his tenure.

In Oregon, Lariviere broke with the state board on several occasions, including by calling for a separate board to oversee the University of Oregon. He also pushed a plan calling for $800 million in state bonding authority for the school, and announced pay raises for more than 1,100 professors and administrators costing more than $5 million while other state university employees were taking furloughs, the Oregonian reported.

Lariviere told the newspaper he would remain at the university through the school year.

“There is a very good likelihood I’ll be teaching Sanskrit,” after he leaves, he said. “That is a prospect that has a lot of appeal.”