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Posts tagged as “Jim Bean: UO Provost”

Back for another feeding

Check the date on Interim Provost Jim Bean’s org chart. His friends are back: I guess it’s time to ask for more contracts, to see what their pay and perks are this time. These are the people advising Gottfredson? Or are we paying them to do, or not do, something else?…

student faculty ratio

2/20/2012: There’s a lot of misinformation about student-faculty ratios floating around. If you look at the number of students per tenure track faculty, you get this: All the data from UO institutional research. It’s ugly, so Jim Bean has been counting NTTFs, which makes us look much prettier. I’ve got…

Which side are you on?

2/16/2012: From the union organizer’s website here: How can faculty have a real voice in setting priorities? Thursday, February 16th4:00-5:30pm115 Lawrence Hear speakers address these critical areas: Howard Bunsis, a professor of accounting at Eastern Michigan University and Secretary-Treasurer of the AAUP Dr. Bunsis, an expert in the analysis of…

Science start-up debacle

1/28/2012: From an anonymous commenter: Having squandered millions in excessive administrative budget increases, remodeling their offices, golden parachutes, and other brilliant ideas, Johnson Hall’s solution for science startups is to spend against reserves in the humanities and social sciences. Despite having the least funding per student on campus, these programs…

Jim will be back

1/28/2012: Berdahl should have announced he was giving Bean an interim appointment ending June 2013. This would satisfy the immediate need for a body to fill out the provost’s suit. It would also leave the deck clear for the next president to do an open search. But no: Colleagues: The…

No Beamer. Bummer.

1/17/2012: I was wrong. I said Jim Bean was getting $775 a month to pay for his BMW while he was on sabbatical. But, in truth, Bean was only getting the Beamer money while he was Provost:  Now that he’s on sabbatical, it appears he’s only getting 60% of $322,140.…