4/13/2011: A very good idea:
Preferred Background
- Experience in student recruitment, education advocacy, or college counseling
- Proficiency and fluency (grammar, spelling, syntax, structure) in both written and spoken Spanish
- Experience with, or graduation from, the University of Oregon
This is a full time, 12-month, fixed-term appointment. Salary range is $29,000 – $32,000 annually commensurate with experience.
Cancel the VP for Diversity search, eliminate OIED, and spend their $1 million budget on this recruiter’s salary and 48 full-ride $20,000 scholarships for good low-income Oregon students from all ethnic groups. Now that would get UO some attention and good-will from the state.
Hell, pay the damn position more than $32,000 per year.
Can anyone tell me whether we have had a Spanish-speaking recruiter in the past? I thought that someone in Admissions, a part-timer perhaps, took on some of that kind kind of work.
Also, could you share with us the make-up of the search committee?
And are they, God forbid, scheduling “visioning” sessions?
Admissions has had several Spanish-speaking Admissions counselors over the years — though the emphasis on recruiting Spanish speakers is recent. Additionally they have an assistant director whose main charge is multicultural recruitment and another counselor who specializes in recruitment of Native American students.