Ohio University’s Eastern Campus Dean Richard Greenlee will join the growing list of top administrators leaving when he steps down to take an early retirement plan in 2012.
Because Greenlee will not leave OU until July 2012, there are no plans yet to form a search committee for his replacement, said Ann Fidler, chief of staff to Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit.
“We haven’t started that process. He just recently made up his mind only a few days ago that he was going to retire, so there hasn’t been time to do any planning,” Fidler said.
Greenlee will be the sixth OU dean to step down during the past six weeks. Another regional campus dean, Donna Burgraff of OU’s Chillicothe campus, resigned Monday to become an assistant professor.
“We have heard that Greenlee is taking the early retirement but have not seen the paperwork. I assume it is currently being prepared,” said John Biancamano, director of OU’s Office of Legal Affairs, in an email yesterday.
Greenlee has served as dean of the Eastern campus since July 2009 and began working at OU in 1990, according to an OU news release.
He earned $131,300 this year, according to OU’s salary database.
“I have thoroughly enjoyed counting Rich Greenlee as one of my dean colleagues,” said Dan Evans, executive dean of Regional Higher Education and vice provost of E-Learning. “Not only is he just a top-notch, exceptional person, but he is a wonderful professional absolutely dedicated and committed with passion to the mission of the regional campuses.”
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