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Posts tagged as “Jim Bean: UO Provost”

To Gottfredson, Bean is worth more than faculty excellence

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…

Redding leaves the building

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…

Update: Interim Provost Jim Bean finally resigns. Ray of hope for UO.

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…

He’s still here:

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…

Bean corrects beangram

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…

Bean rumor

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.

AAU, Bean, Espy rumors

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…