Someone’s gotta be in charge of the team that updates those pointless videos that now bog down the provost’s website. https://provost.uoregon.edu
honest Uncle Gangsta
11/14/2024
There seems to making a vast expansion of pointless bureaucracy. For example, making the syllabi vastly more a project. They will going to succeed in pushing people out of the university. At least, it would be a good thing.
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UO MattersPost author | 11/14/2024
Have faith, Elon is going to fix this. No bureaucrats on Mars until the 3rd flight.
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Recent alum
11/14/2024
Eh, I think these positions are okay actually. Centralized/university-level comms is a bit of a mess right now. It’s my understanding that Carol Keese is doing a massive reorg-ing and some people are leaving. Kay Jarvis, UOM’s favorite PR lackey, for example, has gone to Michigan. Outside of sports, our brand sucks and we could use some marketing help for the academic side of the house when communicating with non-academic audiences. I don’t hate the idea of a comms overhaul.
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That said, we have too many comms people on this campus for our size. Do we really need central comms people and provost level comms people and college level comms people and department level comms people? The answer is no, and I would like to see Carol communicate to the faculty (the whole faculty, not just the Senate) exactly what she is doing to address and minimize role duplication. She should also do this explaining here, on UO Matters. For better or worse, many community members follow UO Matters far more closely than any official UO communication channel, and it would be appropriate for her to contribute an op-ed here on UOM (and in the rebranded Around the O — what’s it called again?) so that the campus community is fully informed about what she’s doing. (And, because this is Oregon, so we can also all provide constructive critique/armchair quarterback what she’s doing, as is our long tradition with admins.)
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Total comms headcount, university-wide, should not increase with this reorg, however. We are resourced constrained and I agree with UOM that we need to be prioritizing students and faculty (and not OAs) when making resource allocation decisions.
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UO MattersPost author | 11/14/2024
Thanks for this informative comment.
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vhils
11/15/2024
Meanwhile, you know who desperately needs a comms team? The union.
Or at the very least a couple of PR majors to teach them the importance of messaging to the wider community i.e. students, parents, alum, etc. There’s this thing called social media that a few people these days use to get their information, and more importantly, their feels. If we’re headed towards a strike, its outcome will live or die on how much UO admin feel the pressure from those groups, not, unfortunately, from the career instructors walking the line.
Someone’s gotta be in charge of the team that updates those pointless videos that now bog down the provost’s website. https://provost.uoregon.edu
There seems to making a vast expansion of pointless bureaucracy. For example, making the syllabi vastly more a project. They will going to succeed in pushing people out of the university. At least, it would be a good thing.
Have faith, Elon is going to fix this. No bureaucrats on Mars until the 3rd flight.
Eh, I think these positions are okay actually. Centralized/university-level comms is a bit of a mess right now. It’s my understanding that Carol Keese is doing a massive reorg-ing and some people are leaving. Kay Jarvis, UOM’s favorite PR lackey, for example, has gone to Michigan. Outside of sports, our brand sucks and we could use some marketing help for the academic side of the house when communicating with non-academic audiences. I don’t hate the idea of a comms overhaul.
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That said, we have too many comms people on this campus for our size. Do we really need central comms people and provost level comms people and college level comms people and department level comms people? The answer is no, and I would like to see Carol communicate to the faculty (the whole faculty, not just the Senate) exactly what she is doing to address and minimize role duplication. She should also do this explaining here, on UO Matters. For better or worse, many community members follow UO Matters far more closely than any official UO communication channel, and it would be appropriate for her to contribute an op-ed here on UOM (and in the rebranded Around the O — what’s it called again?) so that the campus community is fully informed about what she’s doing. (And, because this is Oregon, so we can also all provide constructive critique/armchair quarterback what she’s doing, as is our long tradition with admins.)
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Total comms headcount, university-wide, should not increase with this reorg, however. We are resourced constrained and I agree with UOM that we need to be prioritizing students and faculty (and not OAs) when making resource allocation decisions.
Thanks for this informative comment.
Meanwhile, you know who desperately needs a comms team? The union.
Or at the very least a couple of PR majors to teach them the importance of messaging to the wider community i.e. students, parents, alum, etc. There’s this thing called social media that a few people these days use to get their information, and more importantly, their feels. If we’re headed towards a strike, its outcome will live or die on how much UO admin feel the pressure from those groups, not, unfortunately, from the career instructors walking the line.
Just sayin.
Sounds like you are volunteering!