10/11/2011: That’s the word from Greg Bolt’s RG article today. Seems more than a bit high for an internal hire with no direct experience in the job. Plus we’ll have to keep paying Dyke to job shadow for 6 months. The Chronicle database reports the median salary for CFO’s at doctoral institutions (for 2008-09) was $191,000. UO is, of course, a member of the prestigious AAU, but we have no Med school or engineering, and our budget is about 25% of most other public AAU’s.
She was on the search committee herself and did not even go through the interview process. Lariviere met with her, agreed to the salary, and there you have it.
You might think she would recuse herself from the search if she knew she was considering this position for herself. Seems fairly unethical on the surface. Why can’t we have fair national searches for these key positions isntead of appointing insiders who are not necessarily the best choice of the job. We are fraught with leaders who don’t lead and a lot of them came from internal appointments. Funny, AAEO would never approve this normally, would they?
Dog says
Please refer to earlier discussions in this blog
concerning the “Oregon Way”.
The departments have to follow Affirmative Action and Academic Affairs policies but senior management (Johnson Hall) doesn’t seem to follow their own policies. Do policies apply to some but not all when it comes to searches and hires?