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. Bean knows that if UO starts holding administrators accountable he's a short-timer himself. He'll try and convince Gottfredson the complaints come from a few of the usual malcontents.
Espy has a solid plan B: research grants and a gig in the psych dept as UO's most highly paid professor at $241,364. But Bean's alternative is grim: $185,733 a year teaching the simplex method to bored BADM undergrads five times a year. Unless he can convince his friend George Pernsteiner that the clause in that contract Frohnmayer wrote, letting him go back to being UO B-school dean, is still operative. You guys over in Lillis knew about that part, right?
Bean would be a step up from de Kluyver and his associate deans. Of course, that says everything you need to know about de Kluyver and nothing about Bean.
ReplyDeleteHire Hsu. He is smarter than these two put together. He also runs a much bigger operation.
ReplyDeleteIt is silly to suggest that either would go back to plain teaching and research. Did Lariviere go back to teaching Sanskrit? I know, I know... it was a rhetorical device to highlight their salaries. My opinion is that Espy's energy would be a boon if she would just stop treating faculty as the enemy.
ReplyDeleteThe knee-jerk (or just jerk?) faculty can't help the "enemy" perception. Give her a chance!
DeleteAt least one very well funded and nationally recognized faculty member has left UO because of "issues" with the VPR, are there more on the way out?
ReplyDeleteSmoke out JH. It seems to attract the same. Linton now Espy?
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