The official announcement, follow up to the news that VP for University Relations Michael Redding is leaving: To: [email protected]: deans-dirs: Reorganization of UO central administration The following message is forwarded on behalf of President Michael Gottfredson – I am writing to let you know about a planned reorganization within central…
Posts tagged as “Jim Bean: UO Provost”
3/17/2013. VPAA Doug Blandy announces UO’s faculty excellence awards: Subject: deans-dirs: Announcing Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards 2013-14Date: March 15, 2013 4:06:02 PM PDTTo: “Deans-Dirs List ([email protected])” After successfully rebuilding the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards program last year, we are pleased to announce that the nomination period for…
From “Around the O”. Redding was the architect of the New Partnership Plan and a very important figure in the independent board proposal going through the legislature now: Michael Redding, vice president of university relations at the University of Oregon, announced today (March 7) that he has accepted a position at…
… and is now going to stick it in our eye.” That’s a colleague’s response to the rumor that Bean’s new assignment will be interfacing with the UO Board, if the NPPB goes through. 3/5/13.
… he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Samuel Johnson Lame Duck Interim Provost Bean figures out how to give himself another raise, regardless of whether Gottfredson lets him have an administrative sinecure next year, or makes him start teaching. Fortunately it means raises…
Two weeks ago Bean told Karen Sprague she wouldn’t be reappointed as VP for UGS – claiming the office would be reorganized. As a commenter wrote: She wasn’t fired – she was asked to step down as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Just one more example of Bean focusing on…
Say what you will about former VPAA Russ Tomlin, at least he is teaching courses for his 600 hours, instead of taking the easy way out with the usual administrative sinecure for retiring VPs: It’s going to be an interesting list of guest speakers. Maybe UO’s General Counsel Emerita, Melinda…
2/20/2013: Congratulations to Nathan Tublitz and the Senate: SPQUO. Stupid and futile gesture works! Dear colleagues, I am writing to let you know that James Bean has requested a return to his faculty position at the Lundquist College of Business at the end of this fiscal year. Jim’s more than four…
2/17/2013: Time to get real. Gottfredson’s not going to fire Bean. He’s not even going to fire Geller. It’s up to us faculty. Sure, we could fight with conventional weapons, like Tublitz’s senate resolution. But that would take years. No, this requires a really stupid and futile gesture. And So…
Colleagues: The Oregon Budget Model determines the college-level budgets of the Schools and Colleges of the University of Oregon. We’ve been running this budget model several years now, and it is appropriate to consider how the various aggregate measurements attached to the model have changed. This week, I am presenting…
or maybe he’s correcting his December Senate speech. Or his January one? Or maybe his old claim that UO spends 38% of what our peers do on administration. Anyone know? Anyone trust his math? Believe his grammar? Amazed at his confusion between levels and changes? 1-25-13 Provost’s Message Colleagues: Several…
Executive Summary: Bean still confused by numbers. Alex-Assensoh makes friends. Tublitz’s motion on a performance review of Bean put off until Feb meeting, giving Bean a little more time to find a new job, maybe Rose-Hulman will bite. Motion requiring Gottfredson to tell Holmes and Eveland to stop stalling and…
1/15/2013 Update: Here’s a news story on how the University of Arizona got rid of their Provost and President. It started with a motion like the one that the UO Senate will vote on Wednesday, regarding Bean. This led to a survey of the faculty, run by the Senate, who…
Internet chatter has it he’s a finalist for the president’s job at a midwestern engineering college. Div III, so it seems like a good outcome for all concerned. 1/7/13.
The latest rumors, from the faculty club hookah room: UO is now on an unofficial AAU watch list for underperformance – not enough federal grants or grad students. Johnson Hall is going to try and hang our expulsion on the faculty, or the union, or the weather, but we all…