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Murthy > Martinez in OSU Pres finalist searches, UO Pres Schill not on the market.

There’s a tool that gives you stats on the popularity of wikipedia searches, and it can give a little insight into the secret world of university searches. OSU has announced two finalists, Charles Martinez and Jayathi Murthy. OSU’s trustees will meet tomorrow at 10AM to anoint one to replace their…

Shades of UO’s Charles Martinez

3/28/2013: From Insidehighered.com: Jonathan Hart was appointed professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Alberta in 2004. In 2011, he was also appointed professor of English studies at Durham University, in Britain. Neither was a part-time position, and it appears that neither institution knew about Professor Hart’s…

More on Dr. Martinez’s highly unusual tenure case

5/18/2010: Is tenure at UO for faculty or for administrators? The Academic Affairs website says: Only faculty members with regular appointments at half-time or more (.50 full-time equivalent or FTE) at the ranks of instructor, senior instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or professor can be considered for tenure.  We’ve now…

Martinez

7/17/2009: Our remote sensing stations continue to pick up chatter about Charles Martinez’s promotion to Vice President. Apparently Lariviere did this without much discussion with the traditional OIED constituencies or with faculty and administrators who have been skeptical about his commitment to the job and his priorities. The latest rumor…

Why Martinez got promoted?

7/11/2009: We’ve heard from several people now that Larivierre “promoted” OIED VProvost Charles Martinez to Vice President so that he could keep a closer eye on him and figure out what, exactly, is it that Martinez does to deserve his fat UO salary (and the special exemption Provost Jim Bean…