Associate Deans
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Making fun of middle management in colleges and universities. Because you can never have too many associate deans conspiring to be THE dean.
Inside an Ivory Tower
Joined June 2014
Yes, it is true, I am leaving the university. I will heading a new (as yet unnamed) accreditor for real American universities.
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So you finished your first book and want to know if you need an agent? That’s cute. I know your publisher. You’ll be lucky to get enough royalties to reload your Starbucks app.
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The college has expressed its opinion, we expect our faculty to share it.
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It’s easy to spot the full professors, they write very little but never stop talking and offering advice to their junior colleagues. The advice was never very good, but is less helpful with each passing year.
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Sorry for laughing, I didn’t realize you were trying to make a serious point. You have to admit, it is funny coming from you.
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How is your summer vacation going? Must be nice to have three months off every year!!!.
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We know. In order to fire you as a tenured prof we had to make sure your department didn’t exist anymore. Seemed worth it.
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It is not that we are firing you, your job just doesn’t exist anymore.
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We aren’t fixing something that isn’t broken, we are getting ahead of it becomes a problem.
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You don’t have to lack self awareness to be an associate dean but it definitely helps!.
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I know you think you are helping but please stop telling our new faculty that they need to figure out their side hustle because they can’t live on what the college pays them.
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On the issue of whether we should have a king in this country, the college is maintaining its policy of staying neutral on political issues. But just in case…. “Long Live the King”.
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Development said they texted Gavin Newsom for money, but he didn’t respond.
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Academic freedom is not unlimited. Your academic freedom ends where the board of regents begins.
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Good news, we have a new AI tool to review all class materials for anti-Trump bias.
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Wait, the guy we fired was in the faculty senate? How could we have known?.
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And just like that, faculty are heading back to Twitter….
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Our two biggest donors are in a very public spate. Our strategy is to see if we can get them in a competitive bidding war over the naming rights for our new business college building. So no taking sides… yet!.
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It’s so sad. I remember an America where billionaires conspired together against the working class and poor.
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