Talk:Paul D'Anieri

failed UCR faculty
Do not take it upon yourself to remove embarrassing factual information about UCR faculty, with the sad claim of WP:NPOV. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 00:49, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

BLP
The massive 11 Feb 2018 addition by Ztotta seems rather on the hagiographic side. Is is really in BLP guidelines and provided by an independent editor?Phytism (talk) 21:24, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
This is the only article I've ever attempted to edit, so pardon my fumbling. Yes, I am related to Paul D'Anieri, so that is a conflict of interest I am happy to disclose. That being said, I don't wish to remove "embarrassing factual information", but rather to ensure that the information included is both accurate and makes chronological sense. Yes, D'Anieri had an ugly exit from his position as provost at UCR. However, there's no reason for that information to be anachronistically placed at the end of the article. I'm requesting that the following paragraphs be moved to the top of the "post-administrative career" section because they explain the end of his administrative career, and then there are other things that happen in his life after that resignation that would make more sense to come next and lead us up to the current date:

"On December 16, 2016, D'Anieri tendered his resignation as Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost of UC Riverside rather than face a vote of no confidence by the Faculty Senate, whose members strongly objected to his "top-down" leadership style, his contempt for shared governance, and the "climate of fear and mistrust" he and UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox had generated on campus.[56][57] Over 100 faculty called for the Senate to act, which Senate Chair Dylan Rodriguez has acknowledged was an "unprecedented" show of opposition to a sitting Provost. According to Rodriguez, "If you have 100-plus faculty that are questioning the integrity of shared governance at that fundamental a level, it’s serious."[58]

At a town hall meeting prior to the resignation, D'Anieri and Wilcox listened to complaints about their incompetent handling of new faculty hires, their tendency to “publicly dismiss and ridicule” faculty concerns, and their "lack [of] respect for long-standing campus policies and processes."[57] Despite claiming that "D’Anieri should not be blamed for decisions ... that were made collectively by senior administrators," including a "cluster hiring" initiative that had drawn criticism from the Faculty Senate for its extremely poor planning,[59] Wilcox accepted his resignation.

''In a letter to the UCR campus, D'Anieri attributed his problems to "significant differences of opinion" between him and the faculty "on several fundamental issues." [60] D'Anieri will return to his faculty position at the end of the 2016-17 academic year while a search for a new Provost is mounted. Despite his decision to resign, the Faculty Senate has announced that it will proceed with their no confidence motion.[58]"''

And then it would make sense to include the following paragraphs next:

"After stepping down as Provost at UC Riverside in February 2017, D’Anieri returned to his research on Ukraine and Russia, and continued assisting other universities interested in improving their financial and budgeting practices.

''He spent the fall semester of 2017 as the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow at Harvard University, where he conducted research for a book tentatively titled “From ‘Civilized Divorce’ to Uncivil War: Russia, Ukraine, and the West, 1991-2017.”[6] While at Harvard, he presented an early look at the project: “My research at HURI is focusing on the long-term sources of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I am looking at the problem both chronologically and thematically. The problem of democracy and the spread of democracy is one that comes up again and again. In the 1990s, people in the West generally assumed that the spread of democracy would be a source of peace in the region, but by 2013, Russia saw democratization as a threat worth fighting over. I want to delve into how and why that happened.”[54]''

He also continued his work on University finance and budgeting, designing a curriculum on the topic for the American Council on Education, working in particular with the ACE Fellows Program, “The nation’s premier higher education leadership development program preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities.”[55] In the 2018-19 academic year, D’Anieri will teach a course on the topic in the School of Public Policy at UC Riverside."

Does that sound reasonable and accurate? Ztotta (talk) 18:18, 10 May 2019 (UTC)


 * ❌ The desired changes are not referenced. Spintendo  15:47, 16 May 2019 (UTC)