Jim Bean’s Five Big Ideas, Gottfredson’s clusters-of-excellence, interdisciplinary super-modularity, etc. UO’s administration has a long history of buzzword inspired efforts to take control of faculty hiring away from the faculty and academic departments. They get these ideas from the same bullshit conference powerpoint presentations and “talent management consultants” as every other university…
Posts tagged as “Clusters”
Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here.
Dear Colleagues, As we begin the final weeks of the academic year, I have exciting news to announce about our plans to attract outstanding faculty from across the country to the UO. We are moving forward with funding for two of the proposals identified last year in the Clusters of…
Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here: (whoops, link fixed) University of Oregon interim President Scott Coltrane on Wednesday outlined his plan to keep top UO faculty from getting picked off by wealthier universities — in the wake of two high-profile departures to the University of Chicago earlier…
Diane Dietz reports the sad news on Ed Awh and Ed Vogel, two top “cluster of excellence” professors who are leaving UO for the University of Chicago, in the RG here. The report on our newly appointed and overpaid Interim VP for Research Brad Shelton is here. UO Today video…
UO’s overpaid VP for Research Brad Shelton is going to have an interesting time rationalizing these low retention offers. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here: At least one UO brain researcher has already been poached. Clifford Kentros, a neuroscientist in the psychology department, who designed and produced…
9/1/2014: Diane Dietz has the report in the RG:
The university is floating a proposal to hire a “cluster” of three new professors to rebuild the classical genetics and genomics program at the University of Oregon and to launch a Center for Genome Function. … “You could think of it as re-establishing our eminence in this field,” said Eric Selker, whose work in epigenetics mirrors fundamental genetics research.
Researchers are likely to find out beginning this fall whether donors are ready to help with their cluster proposals.
The UO’s success in genetics in the 1960s and ’70s was built on just such a “cluster hire” as the university now contemplates, [Frank] Stahl said.
8/24/2014: Systems biology cluster hire proposal
Diane Dietz has the report on a real cluster of excellence proposal:
8/3/2014: RG features sustainable cities cluster of excellence: Diane Dietz in the RG, here. 7/17/2014: RG features UO nano-science cluster Diane Dietz has the story here: A lot of the work is done on nanoparticles, which are 1/50,000th the width of a human hair and can only be imaged and…
7/20/2014: In the RG, here. This is silly, the idea has been around forever. OSU does seem to be ahead on implementing it though. But hey, the Beavers can’t beat the Ducks at spending money on sports! 6/28/2014: RG reports on surreal mismanagement of UO research efforts I’m no humanities…
6/28/2014 update: Slow Saturday, thought I’d repost this classic. President Gottfredson and Provost Coltrane have now given former Provost Jim Bean a new job – directing UO’s new “Sports Product” cluster of excellence. We’ve been paying him $245K a year for putting the proposal together: 4/16/2012: Bean and Davis rehire John Moseley Johnson Hall…