9/15/2011 update:
I asked Mr. Martin for the AA documents on this hire. After a very little back and forth, I got them. They give convincing reasons for the interim appointment. This is a big improvement from the way UO used to handle these things. And I made a comment to Mr. Martin saying that.
9/6/2011: Notice of appointment here. I didn’t know we had such a position – which is apparently outside both OIED and OMAS but involves similar objectives. The old job description is here. The former Director, Jason Rodriquez, left UO for a similar job at Linfield in May.
I have no reason to doubt that the new person is anything but an excellent hire. But this is another UO diversity appointment done without a public posting of a job opening or an affirmative action compliant search – just as was done for Charles Martinez back in the bad old days. Bad precedent to follow.
Presumably the person making this appointment, Assistant Dean Chicora Martin, obtained a special exemption to the regular affirmative action rules from AAEO Director Penny Daugherty. Why? Rodriquez announced he was leaving back in May. This seems like plenty of time for following the objectives of affirmative action: make the job opening public, solicit applications broadly, consider all qualified candidates on their merits, and be able to defend the process in public.
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