Certainly this retirement means the loss of one of the most enduring and effective proponents of effective administration at the UO.
Anonymous
04/24/2012
Amen
Anonymous
04/24/2012
What a loss for CAS!
Joe Stone
04/24/2012
Marianne is the most competent administrator I have seen in my 30+ years on campus. One of the greatest indictments of our central administrations over the course of Marianne’s career is that they were too uninformed (or too intimidated) by her competence to include her among them, as a serious participant in university administration, even informally. Unfortunately for all of us, her advice and achievements were usually ignored or devalued. Whatever little I may have accomplished in my years as dean probably was motivated by Marianne’s good advice, just as most of my mistakes were probably the rare occasions when I ignored her advice. Marianne leaves a much stronger college than when she started. In large part because she never lost sight of the notion that universities are about ideas, not just debits, and credits and that ideas should drive organization and structure, not the other way around. Here are just a few bits of my observations about her legacy of the evidence of her legacy: Over a period in which CAS programs became the least well funded on the least well-funded AAU campus in the country and the number of degrees it grants roughly tripled, the quality of CAS programs rose from below the AAU norm to at or above the norm—in large part because Marianne helped find ways to empower faculty and their academic programs to pursue their own ideas. Marianne also found ways to provide support for more than a dozen fledgling new degree programs; to redesign almost alone, the entire campus summer session; and to establish the largest most comprehensive, management-information and information-technology support systems on campus—in some cases, systems the entire campus still relies on and sometimes no longer even knowing that they do. Well done, Marianne!
Anonymous
04/24/2012
Well said Joe! Well done to Marianne and to the many other OA’s and staff who make UO work, despite its senior leadership.
Anonymous
04/24/2012
Stone’s comments are painful to read. Given the dearth of leadership in JH however they should cause no surprise.
If we are going to turn things around with the union we will need more people with such vision and insight. How much of the vote for the union was driven by frustration with JH probably cannot be determined, but if Stone’s take is correct then the admin has only itself to blame for the lowly reputation it enjoys. There were individuals who might have been more effective at resolving the admittedly often truculent problems we have faced as an institution.
Maybe the union should hire Nicols as a consultant. That might inspire some confidence.
Anonymous
04/24/2012
We will miss Marianne. Truly competent, hard working, and a visionary. She is an inspiration in these times of spotty leadership, cronyism, and inflated egos. Thanks Marianne for your service!
Anonymous
04/25/2012
Marriane has held CAS – i.e. most of UO – together through thick and thin Deans.
We are doomed. Fly, you fools.
Certainly this retirement means the loss of one of the most enduring and effective proponents of effective administration at the UO.
Amen
What a loss for CAS!
Marianne is the most competent administrator I have seen in my 30+ years on campus. One of the greatest indictments of our central administrations over the course of Marianne’s career is that they were too uninformed (or too intimidated) by her competence to include her among them, as a serious participant in university administration, even informally. Unfortunately for all of us, her advice and achievements were usually ignored or devalued. Whatever little I may have accomplished in my years as dean probably was motivated by Marianne’s good advice, just as most of my mistakes were probably the rare occasions when I ignored her advice.
Marianne leaves a much stronger college than when she started. In large part because she never lost sight of the notion that universities are about ideas, not just debits, and credits and that ideas should drive organization and structure, not the other way around. Here are just a few bits of my observations about her legacy of the evidence of her legacy:
Over a period in which CAS programs became the least well funded on the least well-funded AAU campus in the country and the number of degrees it grants roughly tripled, the quality of CAS programs rose from below the AAU norm to at or above the norm—in large part because Marianne helped find ways to empower faculty and their academic programs to pursue their own ideas. Marianne also found ways
to provide support for more than a dozen fledgling new degree programs; to redesign almost alone, the entire campus summer session; and to establish the largest most comprehensive, management-information and information-technology support systems on campus—in some cases, systems the entire campus still relies on and sometimes no longer even knowing that they do. Well done, Marianne!
Well said Joe! Well done to Marianne and to the many other OA’s and staff who make UO work, despite its senior leadership.
Stone’s comments are painful to read. Given the dearth of leadership in JH however they should cause no surprise.
If we are going to turn things around with the union we will need more people with such vision and insight. How much of the vote for the union was driven by frustration with JH probably cannot be determined, but if Stone’s take is correct then the admin has only itself to blame for the lowly reputation it enjoys. There were individuals who might have been more effective at resolving the admittedly often truculent problems we have faced as an institution.
Maybe the union should hire Nicols as a consultant. That might inspire some confidence.
We will miss Marianne. Truly competent, hard working, and a visionary. She is an inspiration in these times of spotty leadership, cronyism, and inflated egos. Thanks Marianne for your service!
Marriane has held CAS – i.e. most of UO – together through thick and thin Deans.