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Diane Dietz reveals info on UO’s new deans and their deals

In the RG here. Next up, a new provost to replace Scott Coltrane.

8 Comments

  1. Inquiring Mind 05/20/2016

    Would be interested in seeing report on the number of women versus men in leadership rolls at the UO. Deans, VPs, leadership councils, trustees. Feel to me pretty male dominated. Not to mention not super diverse in other ways either.

  2. Why replace Coltrane? 05/20/2016

    He’s been doing an excellent job of smiling while Schill blames the failures of the University on the past President. Also don’t forget the excellent relationship he built with the GTFs to boost our grad enrollment.

    • Captain Nemo 05/22/2016

      indeed it is hard to think of anything useful that SC has done. but he is very good at keeping himself out of trouble, too bad that talent was not used to do the same for those entities he administered.

  3. Schillflation 05/23/2016

    How do the salaries of the new deans compare to the old deans? They seem to average about $300k, plus a lot of perks. That would fund a lot of low income scholarships. Is this runaway admin Schillflation?

    • Watcher 05/24/2016

      Overall, I would say that over the last decade that salaries are increasing about 10-15% per replacement hire per person. Not sure how that matches the natural progression of raises during the interim times that a particular person holds a position. The CAS Dean and VPR positions would be the ones to track, as I think that their salaries have increased about $80-90K each in last 10 years.

      On the other hand, for whatever reason, it is very, very hard to get excellent people to apply for and accept these positions, so the competitive market for upper administrators must be wacky. It is easy for one to complain, but we all want good deans as well.

      • Schillflation 05/24/2016

        What do deans actually do? It doesn’t seem like there salaries correspond to the number of staff in they supposedly manage. Some even have there own fundraisers, finance officers, managers etc. to do all the work.

        • uomatters Post author | 05/24/2016

          You can’t be serious. Please find another blog to post your comments on. Thanks.

          • Anonymous 05/25/2016

            @ UOmatters

            Don’t be too dismissive here concerning “what do deans actually do”? I think its a legitimate question. I have known and worked with many deans during my time at the UO and what they do varies considerably (especially the CAS associate deans). So yes Deans conduct unit policy, raise funds, deal with faculty hires, deal with unpleasant personnel issues, and set budget policy (maybe or maybe not these days) – but do they provide adequate oversight of curriculum and degree program matters in departments? do they protect departments from bad hires (they didn’t protect my dept. from hiring me, like they should have …) – do they actively help to improve faculty morale – do they assist with more logically and functional deployment of IT and other resources?

            There is a scorecard that could be constructed here and that
            exercise might be useful. Over the last 10 years I have found most Deans to be, well, unhelpful. This was not the case prior to around 2006 where some Deans were helpful and conscientious in moving their faculty forward. Bronet was a decent example of this.

            So, in the year 2016, I also find myself asking the question,
            “What DO the deans actually do …?

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