Update: Rachel Bachman has more on the why. Predicts Jamie Moffitt will get promoted.
7/21/2011: From Adam Jude in the RG. Ms Baumgartner was Kilkenny’s hatchet woman when it came to cutting wrestling, she’s now giving up her $156,814 job at UO for Syracuse.
My guess is that AD Rob Mullens uses this as an opportunity to add another perk to Lorraine Davis’s golden parachute retirement contract. The Oregonian wrote about this scam long ago – the contracts were one of my first public records requests. I thought Ms Davis was long retired too, until I saw her at a Jock Box meeting a few months back and spit my coffee all over my shirt.
Turns out she’s now a Professor Emerita of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership. Her other titles include Special Assistant to the Provost and Special Assistant to the AD. Very special – she gets $197,278 at 0.62 FTE, plus a cell phone and a car allowance, tickets, and an unknown expense account for travel to those fun away games. What does she do for that money. Sure you want to turn over that rock?
When Davis actually retires, will there be an open search for the job of Special Assistant to the Provost? Or is that job already promised to Tomlin?
To be decided by a cage fight between Tomlin and Dyke at Matt Court.