Presidential Messages

• Members of the search committee to hold a listening session and post a survey to gather thoughts on qualities sought in next permanent provost.
• The actions come from working group recommendations based on feedback from the campus-wide climate survey.
• Keese comes to the UO from the University of Virginia where she most recently served as associate vice president for marketing and brand strategy.
• As we each process in our own way, we must continue to seek truth through teaching and educating, and not lose our capacity for care and empathy.
• To ensure continued delivery of high-quality audit activities, the university will partner with an outside firm that brings expertise in audit work.
• The UO will launch searches for the positions of provost and VP for student life.
• President Scholz offers encouragement and words of advice to students at Convocation, as they prepared to get their year underway.
• The president shared his plans for university strategic priority setting and gave an update on leadership hiring.
• Buck comes to the UO from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he is currently the vice president for development and alumni relations.
• I am pleased to share that the University of Oregon will join the Big Ten Conference in August of 2024, and thrilled we have the opportunity to join the nation's preeminent academic-athletic conference.