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Contract issues under fire
■Students and faculty voice
funding and contract
concerns in light of Linda
Dievendorf’s dismissal
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Following the administration’s
decision not to renew Cultural Fo
rum Director Linda Dievendorf’s
contract, student leaders have ques
tioned the motives behind the deci
sion and some question the very na
ture of Dievendorf’s position as an
officer of administration.
Like most of the 789 other officers
of administration, Dievendorfs con
tract is up for renewal every year.
Students close to Dievendorf said
the announcement that her contract
will not be renewed is an Universi
ty attempt to exert more control over
student money!
And Debby Martin, project coor
dinator for the Student Activities
Resource Center, said it was Dieven
dorf’s position as an officer of ad
ministration that gave University ad
ministrators the leverage to push her
out of the position.
“There needs to be more than a
one-year contract,” Martin said.
“Something to protect against termi
nation ... to tell you the truth, Fd
rather be in a union. ”
Martin said it is the ambiguous
nature of the officer of administra
tion position that leaves them with
out much recourse. They cannot or
ganize because they are
management, she said, yet they do
not have the full protection and au
thority of more influential adminis
trators.
“It’s a very uncomfortable posi
tion to be in at the University,” she
said. “Basically you have no rights.
There’s no recourse for not having
your contract renewed.”
Dan Williams, vice president of
administration, said there is nothing
unusual about one-year contracts
and they are definitely not an at
tempt to keep officers of administra
tion from being able to protect their
employment.
“That’s been pretty standard,” he
said. “It’s been an industry standard
in higher education throughout my
experience.”
Officers of administration can
hold contracts longer than one year,
Williams said, but two years is rare
and three-year contracts must be ap
proved by University President
Dave Frohnmayer.
In November of 1996, Williams
said, the state merged the positions
of management service employees
and officers of administration to
form the current classification with
the title officer of administration.
The title now means both service
and instructional staff who are su
pervised by a University vice presi
dent. He said that at the time, there
was not a real difference between
the instructional and service em
ployees, so the change was merely
in name.
“This was simply a decision by
the state,” Williams said. “It had
nothing to do with collective bar
gaining.”
He said all dealings between the
University and officers of adminis
tration are handled in strict obser
vance under a set policy, and that
policy was observed in the Univer
sity’s dealing with Dievendorf.
Magid Shirzadegan, associate di
rector of the International Education
and Exchange department, serves on
the Officer of Administration Coun
cil that works to keep other officers
of administration informed on cam
pus events that relate to them. He
said officers of administration are an
integral part of the University, and it
would not be in the administration’s
best interest to leave them in doubt
about their contracts.
“I don’t see how the University
could afford to do that,” he said.
“That would shut down most of
their services and offices.”
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