9/26/2011: Let’s just say the irony of this email invitation is not lost on those classified staff who have worked with Vice President Dyke: An Invitation to Two Focus Groups for Classified Employees: RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE: HOW ARE WE DOING? The University of Oregon distributes a memo to the Campus Community…
Posts tagged as “Frances Dyke: VP for Finance”
9/24/2011: Word down at the faculty club is that one of Interim Provost Lorraine Davis’s first acts was to offer her longtime friend Frances Dyke a job as her special assistant – so she’ll stay on even after we get a real CFO. This is exactly what worried everyone about…
5/11/2011: Two interesting stories in the ODE. Nora Simon has a retrospective on UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz’s term: Shared governance means the Senate and the administration have joint power to make decisions that affect the University, according to the University’s charter, and Tublitz has fought to keep that relationship…
4/26/2010: Read it all. Full text here. This is an astoundingly revealing letter to the UO research community, from VP for Research Rich Linton and VP for Finance and Administration Frances Dyke. Both senior administrators are now leaving their jobs. Linton was fired did not have his contract renewed by…
4/11/2011: VP for Research Rich Linton has now issued an explanation of who is running ORSA (Moira Kiltie has just been promoted) and who all the Huron consultants are. Rich is not providing a word on the cost – but here are the contracts and $1.5 million in invoices. Another…
3/6/2011: The only regular professor on the search committee for the Frances Dyke replacement is Phil Romero. Phil was the B-school dean before Jim Bean, left for a job at CSU – Los Angeles, but is now apparently back teaching business classes at UO. There is no one else among…
2/21/2011 update. President Lariviere and Provost Bean must have got an earful about Frances Dyke’s announcement that she would stay on until summer 2012. Today Bean announces the search will get underway within a few weeks, and she will be replaced as soon as we can hire someone else. Of…
2/17/2011: The OA’s have been waiting for an email like this: Colleagues: Yesterday many of you received an email from Frances Dyke, announcing that she “had made this very personal decision” to retire as VP for Finance and Administration, effective June 30 2012. Contrary to the impression made in her…
2/8/2011 update: Liz Denecke responds to our request for a little transparency about the current DPS Director and his two predecessors: Nice to hear from you. As to your first request, the resumes and cover letters from theemployment applications for Richard Turkiewicz, Kevin Williams, andDouglas Tripp became faculty records once…
at the UO Police Force meeting today, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Feb 2, in the Fir Room of the EMU: 1) As you know your previous two hires as DPS Director did not have their contracts renewed, under odd circumstances. The first was Richard Turkiewicz, whom you hired from…
1/20/2011: Rumor has it that Frances Dyke has struck again, firing longtime DPS Captain Herb Horner. Apparently she decided she could blame him for the Matt Court $10 parking screw-up. My understanding is that Horner held DPS together through two of Ms. Dyke’s botched DPS Director hires: Richard Turkiewicz and…
11/9/2010: The Senate has an unusually full agenda for tomorrow – everything from the ORI building to a report by Frances Dyke on parking. The opposition to the ORI project has dug up some documents that apparently show the decisions to approve the building were made without the necessary community…
9/15/2010: Despite the steady national, state, and local declines in property crime and violent crime (reported in recent front page stories in the RG and the Oregonian), and the continued decline in state support for UO, it turns out that Frances Dyke has authorized some pretty serious and expensive efforts…
Update: Linton’s own public statement is here: It is satisfying for me to leave knowing that the UO has seen increasing research accomplishments by its faculty, including sustained growth in sponsored research funding, interdisciplinary research initiatives and innovations supporting technology transfer and development. I am deeply grateful for our faculty,…
10/6/2009 update: We hear from many disparate sources that this $4 million screw-up came from Frances Dyke’s office, not from Rich Linton’s. Version A is that Frances did not take the DHHS documentation request seriously, and did not submit sufficient documentation. Version B is that Frances took the DHHS documentation…