Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club will be meeting this week, during the usual hours (Wednesdays and Thursdays 5:00-8:00 pm). We’ll close during Exam Week and Spring Break, and then open again in Week One of the Spring Term. The Senate-sponsored “Talk to Your Dean Night” series continues this week with…
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5/3/2016: Schill’s on a roll. Four down, one to go:
Colleagues,
W. Andrew Marcus has been Interim Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences since 2013, and he knows both the amazing opportunity and daily challenges of the University of Oregon’s largest college. That firsthand knowledge and a 15-year UO career that has been defined by incredible dedication, committed leadership, and an unflappable passion for his college make him a clear choice to serve in the role on a permanent basis.
Andrew has earned the respect of the faculty, staff, and UO leadership by always maintaining an optimistic eye on the future. Perhaps most visibly, he has been the driving force to conceptualize the Tykeson Hall College and Careers Building, and will now continue that work to make it a reality.
A tireless advocate for his faculty and staff, he leads by example, as demonstrated by his significant reorganization of the dean’s office to optimize its efficiency in the face of budgetary challenges. The high-functioning and dedicated team he has built allows him to devote more and more time to advancing the visibility of CAS, especially among alumni and donors.
Andrew remains research-active, focusing on human impacts on rivers and the use of remote sensing technology to map and understand rivers. Most recently he served as lead editor of the award winning Atlas of Yellowstone. He also served as head of the Department of Geography from 2008 to 2011, associate dean for social sciences from 2011 to 2013, and president of the UO Senate in 2004–5.
A 1978 graduate of Stanford University, Andrew went on to earn his master of arts in geography from Arizona State University in 1983 and his PhD in geography from the University of Colorado in 1987.
Please join me in congratulating W. Andrew Marcus, now the permanent Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Sincerely,
Scott Coltrane
Provost and Senior Vice President
Schill’s on a roll. Four down, one to go:
?: New LCB business school Dean ?
5/3/2016: Andrew Marcus appointed as Permanent CAS Dean
5/2/2016: New School of Architecture and Allied Arts Dean Christoph Lindner, from Amsterdam
4/28/2016: UO’s new Dean of Journalism and Communications is PR expert Juan-Carlos Molleda from UFL
4/26/2016: UO’s new VP for Research, David Conover from Stony Brook
5/2/2016: New School of Architecture and Allied Arts Dean Christoph Lindner, from Amsterdam
That’s the latest rumor about the School of Journalism and Communications, from the faculty club breakfast buffet. Some stuff about a “caste system” among faculty, and a historical “lack of focus or vision” from administrators. More on SOJC dissension here. I’m sure these issues will be thoroughly addressed by a new branding…
I wasn’t there, but I’ve received a few emails from Journalism faculty, telling me that Professor of Advertising Deb Morrison used the occasion of a Friday J-School faculty meeting with UO’s VP for Equity and Inclusion Yvette Alex-Assensoh to assert that I was engaged in cyberbullying. The official .gov definition…
3/27/2015: Just kidding. Gleason doesn’t think bloggers are journalists, and while he ran the process he wasn’t a judge. The real award announcement is here.
The post below describes a 2013 panel at the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists with myself and former Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, who has actively worked to make it more difficult for journalists to get public records from UO. The comments to this post are pretty interesting, including an exchange between myself and UO professor of advertising Deb Morrison, who tried to come to Gleason’s defense. Here’s a summary:
6/20/2013: Eder Campuzano has the story in the ODE. Gleason will stay on while they try again.
Colleagues, We present, for your consideration, four outstanding finalists for the Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication. Candidates will be on campus for the next two weeks beginning Monday, June 3. Campus visits are scheduled as follows: Candidate A, June 3 and 4 [Ed: Dave Kurpius, LSU] Candidate…
2/1/13: I don’t know why, but the search to replace SOJC dean Tim Gleason has failed to produce an acceptable candidate. UO ad here. The search was led by the outside search firm Isaacson Miller – apparently Bob Berdahl’s choice. Next steps presumably include reaching farther down the list or appointing an interim. 1/13/13: Journalism…