Fall grades are due at noon. The modal view is that Gottfredson hasn’t shown enough participation to earn a grade. Otherwise it looks like a D+ average. As a freshman he gets another quarter to try and bring it up to a 2.0. Bean’s grades look like something we’d expect…
Posts tagged as “Jim Bean: UO Provost”
11/27/2012: That’s the word from a conversation today between Dave Hubin and a UO Matters correspondent. Apparently the official JH position is going to be that Gottfredson’s decision to implement reviews has nothing to do with the two motions that passed the UO Senate unanimously on Nov 7. Whatever dude, just…
Perhaps he’s busy sending out resumes. At the last Senate meeting President Gottfredson made a big deal about announcing that Bean was going to redo UO’s academic plan, after setting up a blog for faculty input. Look, blogging ain’t exactly rocket science, but it’s Dead Week and our chief academic…
The RG reprints a Bloomberg report on the growing pushback from faculty, students, and parents angry at how universities are wasting their money: U.S. universities employed more than 230,000 administrators in 2009, up 60 percent from 1993, or 10 times the rate of growth of the tenured faculty, those with permanent…
11/1/2012: Former UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz has sent me a copy of this motion which he intends to introduce in the Senate in November, for debate in January: MOTION TITLE: Performance Review of Provost James C Bean Sponsor: N. Tublitz, Professor of Biology MOTION: The Senate requests President Gottfredson…
10/31/2012: Today’s message from our interim provost – presumably sent with Gottfredson’s blessing – represents some serious backtracking regarding Brad Shelton’s 2009 “New Budget Model”, of which Shelton wrote: What is RCM? In most modern American universities, authority is highly decentralized, but responsibility (specifically financial responsibility) is held centrally. This decoupling of authority…
10/27/2012: That’s the rumor down at the faculty club. No details yet. An honorable outcome, particularly if it’s quick and cheap. Update: A reader points out that Lariviere gave Bean a 3 year contract renewal in May 2011, which Berdahl reapproved after the sabbatical – i.e. until July 2014. This doesn’t prevent Gottfredson…
10/21/2012: The video of the 2009 furlough meeting where Interim Provost Bean tried to convince the faculty to take a 5% pay cut is here. What did the furlough cost Bean personally? Before the furlough he was making $295,000. He took a 6% furlough cut – more than the troops. But…
Update: After a little computer hacking we’ve obtained a secret recording of a meeting between a UO Provost and his accounting expert. It’s not clear from the context if this discussion is about Bend, UO Portland, the new online initiatives, or some other deal the administration has not yet brought…
10/15/2012: Word down at the faculty club steam room is that the pressure on Interim Provost Bean to do something about his VPR, Kimberly Espy, is coming to a head. Expect nothing from Bean, who ignored faculty complaints about Frances Dyke, Charles Martinez, Russ Tomlin, and Don Harris for years.…
by passing the buck to an “Administrative Advisory Group”, though I suppose it’s possible he’s looking for cover to do the right thing. Last I heard Dave was still claiming that the $200 fee waiver policy he and Berdahl rescinded in May had really only been implemented by Lariviere on…
Since apparently Gottfredson won’t do it, it seems that Wikipedia is in charge of Bean’s long overdue performance review. 9/22/2012: They must not have seen the furlough meeting video, which clearly establishes his notoriety:
Update: Bean’s now sent round a new email, proving that at least he can read UO Matters, or has someone on staff to sound out the big words for him. His hack job apologies are not as fun as Randy Geller’s, so I’m just putting it in the comments. FWIW, no…
She’s not leaving much to chance. The rest of his new contract is here – yes, we’re still paying for his beamer. 8/14/2012.
Read Interim Provost Jim Bean’s 2010 op-ed in the Oregonian, defending the decision to spend $1.83 million a year of regular students’s tuition money on the athlete only Jacqua Center for Student Athletes – or as the NY Times calls it, the Jock Box. Then read about how Duck AD Rob…