Unfortunately our VP for Student Affairs has a bigger budget, and will pay an $8K premium for someone who’s willing to talk the talk, rather than walk the walk.
Which job do you think will do more for UO’s students?
Job A: 8/30/2016: LCB seeks Academic Adviser and Diversity Initiatives Specialist
Lundquist College of Business, Undergraduate Programs
Salary range at 1.0 FTE is $45,000-$52,000 plus the Standard University of Oregon benefit package.
About the Position
The Academic Adviser’s primary responsibility will be to provide academic advising services to a racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse population of undergraduate students pursuing business degree programs. This will include providing small group and individual advising, meeting with prospective students and their families, and utilizing technology to communicate with College of Business students.
Additionally, this position will work in conjunction with the LCB Program Director for Equity and Inclusion on the Building Business Leaders (BBL) Program. BBL is a cohort-style program designed to attract and retain more minority students within the Lundquist College. Students participate in a two-term seminar as a freshman and then graduate to the CEO program in their later years. The purpose of the cohort is to support underrepresented minority students through the completion of the pre-business curriculum by building a small, supportive learning community that fosters collaboration, leadership, teamwork, and academic excellence. The program is going into its seventh year and has become one of the most widely-recognized organizations of diverse, exceptional leaders on the UO campus. For more information about this program, check out business.uoregon.edu/ug/ceo-network/bbl.
This position will coordinate with the LCB Program Director for Equity and Inclusion Services to represent students and the needs of the Undergraduate Advising Office on College and University-wide committees.
The successful candidate will be experienced in advising, preferably at the college or university level; have excellent presentation skills; demonstrate a history of providing services to diverse constituencies; and demonstrated experience in creatively using technology to convey information.
Job B: 7/28/2016: VP for Student Life seeks Assistant Strategic Communicator for Buzzwords
Requirement #1 is a working knowledge of every imaginable administrative double-talk buzzword, with the notable exception of academic excellence. Reports to the VPSL’s Director of Strategic Communications. Job ad here:
Anticipated Starting Salary: $50,000-$60,000 commensurate with experience
Excellent Benefits: Health and dental, employer-paid retirement, tuition benefits for employee or an eligible dependent, and sick and vacation leave.
Who we are:
The Division of Student Life provides and promotes exceptional and transformative experiences that prepare students to be healthy, successful, inspired global citizens. Within collaborative and inclusive communities that embody the values of diversity, innovation, and social justice, we actively facilitate experiential learning and engage students in meaningful and deliberate activities, programs, and services. …
Our values and goals:
The Division of Student Life values and is committed to integrity, multicultural competence, care and compassion, sustainability, innovation and adaptability, accessibility, personal development and responsible stewardship. We have three key strategic goals: create an exceptional experience for every student, serve as a model of equity, inclusion, and collaboration and work to maximize effectiveness and efficiencies, prioritizing decisions using evidence-based analysis.
VP Holmes not only didn’t write her July 2014 letter to the RG denying UO’s basketball rape allegations coverup – that was the job of PR flacks Jennifer Winters and Rita Radostitz and team leader Roger Thompson – it’s not even clear if she read it:
Oh, lordy. How many more communicators do we need? UOM: do you know what the sum total of communications staff on campus is? who is where and how many?
I’d suggest you direct these questions to UO’s new Associate Communicator for Sensible Questions, but that position is still unfilled.
Considering the mass-exodus of student life marketers over the past 2 years and their inability to backfill most of those positions, it would make sense to consolidate all of it into 2 division-level positions (Director + Assistant).
Also, with freshman required to live in the dorms now (the 1950s dorms can’t compete on the free market with the MUPTE-fueled glut of cheap new apartments in Eugene), the largest marketing department in student life (Housing) will probably be disbanded or absorbed into the cube farm at 10th and Mill.
Big picture: this position means less communicators on campus, not more.
Translating puppies:
MUPTE = Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption – I don’t think this is like geico where everyone knows that …
https://www.eugene-or.gov/829/Multi-Unit-Property-Tax-Exemption
Uh, I’m going to go with A on this one.