Over the years this office has been a stew of lethargy, incompetence, insider favoritism, and outrageous self-dealing. Cass has just kept on doing her job for the university through all that, and now she’s in charge. At least for a while. Good move by Provost Phillips, imho: Dear University of…
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The announcement from Provost Phillips on UO’s VPR search is here, with a list of the search committee members etc. It will be an open, national, affirmative action compliant search. Good news. But the search firm will be Isaacson Miller, who ran the PSU Presidential search that brought them Rahmat…
Dear University of Oregon Colleagues, We are writing to let you know that David Conover is retiring from his role as vice president for research and innovation at the end of the academic year, effective July 3, 2020. David has served the university with distinction and been instrumental in promoting…
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
An admirable bit of transparency from the VPR Office, here. Many interesting projects: And yet UO’s Public Records Office thinks faculty records are exempt from disclosure ;) They even redacted all the faculty names from the search committee that gave Scott Coltrane Jim Bean’s job:
Surveys much be completed by 5:00, Wednesday, March 9.
Candidate A: February 23-24, 2016 – Roger Cone
Candidate B: February 25-26, 2016 – David Conover
Candidate C: March 1-2, 2016 – Patricia Bauer
Candidate D: March 3-4, 2016 – Edmund Seebauer