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All hail the glorious new five year plans!

Last updated on 07/14/2017

Originally posted Dec 4th, 2012: All hail the glorious new five year plans!

CAS Dean Scott Coltrane is ignoring Interim Provost Bean’s silly threats to start a blog to help him rewrite UO’s Academic Plan. If Bean ever does follow through on this, everyone will ignore it and Bean will make up new numbers whenever it suits him, just as happened last time. Anyway, Bean’s a short-timer.

Instead Coltrane is telling his departments to prepare 5-year plans for faculty and GTF hiring, etc., to be used in resource allocation. CAS will release the instructions for these on Wednesday.

And new VP for Equity and Inclusion Yvette Alex-Assensoh is soon going to ask everyone for new 5-year Strategic Diversity Action Plans. She should try and read the old ones first, to see what a ridiculous make-work exercise this will be for her new colleagues. Not that Charles Martinez ever bothered to read them.

But I know what you’re really wondering: Why does it always have to be a 5-year plan? It’s simple. The Nazi’s gave the 4-year plan a bad name. The Poles tried a 6-year plan, but gave up after 5. Jesuits do 7-year plans, but they’ve got eternity on their side. So while the inventor of the 5-year plan was not exactly a saint, 5 years it will be. 12/4/2012.

7 Comments

  1. Anonymous 12/04/2012

    Hallelujah. Finally something from above. (I assume they will listen… maybe I’m crazy.)

  2. Anonymous 12/04/2012

    A Great Leap Forward in Diversity

    • Anonymous 12/04/2012

      Why doesn’t Stalin have the same effect?

  3. Anonymous 12/04/2012

    Keep your head down and your eyes pointed toward the ground. Otherwise expect to waste a lot of time. And watch out for colleagues that actually enjoy this sort of thing…

  4. Anonymous 12/05/2012

    Now that you’re in the union Politburo, it’s really going to your head, UO M!

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