and another 7/6/2012 update:
From: “Provost Office”Subject: Hello AgainDate: July 6, 2012 2:14:06 PM PDTTo:Reply-To: [email protected]
Colleagues:
I have just returned to the Provost’s Office after an eight month leave. I thank Lorraine Davis for doing a great job in the role of Acting Senior Vice President and Provost. She left a stronger administration than she took over, in the face of some steep challenges.
I want to discuss two points today: internal communications and priorities for the Provost’s Office.
Internal Communications: I feel that during the last legislative session, due to our intensely political environment, our internal communications faltered. I commit to reversing that. Aria Seligmann, a communications professional working for the Sustainable Cities Initiative, has now committed part of her time to the Provost’s Office to help maintain a continuous flow of information to the UO community. I will provide regular updates on current events affecting the university, with data summaries of various successes and challenges facing the campus. I am reorganizing the Provost’s Office to free up time for visiting with faculty, staff and student groups across campus.
Priorities: Later this month, our leadership retreat will address the most pressing priorities for the Provost’s Office during this coming year. The group in attendance will include the Leadership Council augmented by faculty, staff, student, Foundation and Alumni Association leadership. I will present some ideas such as review of the Academic Plan and the Big Ideas, office and classroom space, etc. The group will have an opportunity to add topics and to do an initial prioritization. I have already spoken with Robert Kyr, President of the University Senate, about an online ranking process of these priorities, to be run by the Senate in September, involving the entire community. From all this input, the President and I will settle on the priority topics for this year.
Until next time, enjoy the summer that seems to have finally arrived.
Regards, Jim
7/6/2012 update. Seems like Lorraine’s search to replace Don Harris worked out:
From: “Provost Office”Subject: CIO and Vice Provost for Information Services AnnouncementDate: July 6, 2012 9:34:37 AM PDTTo:Reply-To: [email protected]Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Melissa Woo has accepted our offer as CIO and Vice-Provost for Information Services for the University of Oregon. Melissa currently serves in the role of director in University Information Technology Services at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She has a BA from University of California, Berkeley, a PhD in biophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and extensive IS leadership experience at Illinois and UWM. She brings particular expertise in research computing. Melissa will be joining us September 3, 2012.
Please join me in welcoming Melissa and thanking Roger Thompson and the search committee for bringing us such outstanding candidates.
Regards, Jim
7/4/2012 update: provost.uoregon.edu has been revised. On the homepage Bean is no longer claiming to have been provost since 2008. But his official biography still does:
We’ve all got our pride I guess, but leaving the interim appointment business off of his vitae might be a bit problematic in some situations. No word on a date for his performance review – let me know if you hear anything.
7/1/2012: It’s no surprise that his website is wrong. Frohnmayer appointed him as *Interim* Provost in 2008, after Linda Brady left in a hurry. There was no search. Then, after he ran Lariviere’s transition team, Lariviere appointed him permanent VP and Provost in 2009. Again, there was no search. Nor has Bean ever had a performance review as interim Provost or Provost. Bean’s 2011 sabbatical plan talks about him “transitioning back to faculty”. Great – but when?
Bean’s vision of UO’s future is perhaps best captured by his 2009 academic plan, which has been ignored by everyone including his own office. Acting Provost Lorraine Davis has spent the past year cleaning up his various messes. It’s a long list, but her most recent effort has been Information Services. 2 years ago CIO Don Harris had a performance review that turned up lots of problems. Bean did nothing. So, while Bean was out on sabbatical Davis fired Harris, restructured his office, and started an open, transparent search which has brought 3 candidates to campus over the past month.
Maybe Gottfredson will keep Davis around, and have her run a similar search for a new Provost?
$322K to send an email “Hello Again”? REALLY??!! “Until next time…”!!
It’s going to be a very, very long year.
Seriously Bean, the best he can muster for his return letter to the campus community is a 1984 song from The Cars???? It would preferable if we had Ric Ocasek as our provost.
And our provost is always trying to explain the differences between direct and indirect labor… Likewise, INTERIM, is not the same as APPOINTED after a national competitive search that has been vetted by our very diligent Daugherty’s Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity. Maybe when he was on sabbatical, he could have caught up with old friends who are actually in appointed positions and inquired about the search and interview process they had to go through.
Seems to me like this email should come from Gottfredson, not Bean.