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Posts tagged as “Kees de Kluyver”

UO accounting alum’s scholarship gifts end with student-loan Ponzi scheme

I’m no expert on the use of charitable contributions to buy prestige, but this case out of UO sure has some interesting twists, and might even displace the Avery Fisher Hall naming rights buy-back and the Central Park Zoo story on my syllabus. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that UO accounting alumnus and…

UO paying tenured full professor $327K to teach zero classes

Note: This deal was done before President Schill arrived. The blame should go to Coltrane, or whichever of UO’s many other recent presidents or interims put this in de Kluyver’s contract and gave him raises while UO’s business school slowly sank and then disappeared from the US News rankings. UO Management Professor Cornelis “Kees”…

B-School Dean Kees de Kluyver’s 5th year review underway

On Interim Provost Bronet’s website, here. I haven’t heard much about Kees since the Songways branding debacle. Petty change in retrospect, compared to 160over90’s boondoggle. There’s also an update about the strategic planning process – but so far as I can see no discussion of budgeting or Brad Shelton’s budget…

160over90 Branders to try out media campaign plan on faculty, staff

11/17/2014: Today, 4PM in the Alumni Center. Deputy Chief Strategic Communicator Tobin Klinger has the report here.

11/14/2014 update: Strategic Communicator Tim Clevenger fiddles with the brand, as grad students burn away

Job #1 was keeping us in the AAU by boosting research and grad student enrollment. But UO’s IR office reports that grad student enrollment has dropped yet again: down 100 just this year:

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Business school does “360 degree” review of Dean, posts all comments

No, of course I’m not talking about UO and our B-School Dean Kees de Kluyver. This is for Eastern Michigan. Survey responses here. Seems like a constructive exercise. Will this ever happen for UO administrators? Maybe. After a secret performance review of President Gottfredson last spring – the Senate wasn’t…

Now w/ docs: Orwell meets Dilbert, from the guy Bean hired as LCB dean

5/13/2013: Anyone go to the Friday LSB faculty meeting about Songlines?5/2/2013: Updated with contract and invoices at bottom5/1/2013: From: “Tracy Bars” [email protected] To: “LCB Faculty” [email protected] “LCB Staff”, [email protected],  “LCB OA’s” [email protected] Cc: “Chris Van Dyke” [email protected] Subject: May 10th LCB Faculty Staff Meeting Materials and Dean’s Message LCB Faculty…

Update: Moffitt passes his "business school case study" to the UO business school

3/19/2013 update: Law School had been planning on banking 45% of CnC revenue as profit Law Professor Q: The particular question that interests me the most concerns the division of revenue from CNC courses. How much of this revenue goes to CNC/CRES/ADR, and how much goes to the law school’s…