Faculty
|
 "Too
Busy " (1
page) |
A
request from the Chair tips the scales for a colleague
trying to balance responsibilities to family and to
academia.
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"Seven
Is Forever" (1
page)
|
The
tenure clock continues to run as an assistant professor
lives as if there is no urgency about using the years
wisely.
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"Academic
Integrity -- Four Vignettes" (2
pages)
|
"Another
Einstein?" "Just a Quick Question,"
"Protecting the Standards," and "The
Data That Wasn't The Data."
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| "The
Reader of Signs" (1
page) |
A
faculty mentor receives an e-mail from an anxious
colleague asking for assistance in looking for a job
at a different institution.
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| "The
Decomposing Constructivist" (1
page) |
A
faculty mentor must figure out how to help a colleague
who seems to have serious classroom management problems.
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| "The
Holiday Blues" (2 pages) |
A
phone call from a student raises questions about a
colleague's integrity and good judgment. What to do?
|
|
"Grade,
Grade Me Good" (1
page)
|
A
faculty member must respond to a student who complains
about a grade, asserts the faculty member is being
arbitrary, and believes a much higher grade is essential.
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Chairs
|
"The
Core Course Setback" (2
pages) |
A
faculty colleague fails to complete a curricular project
of vitally importance to the future of the department.
|
"The
Defenders of the Right" (2
pages)
|
A
student, encouraged by a faculty member, appeals to
the Chair to change a final grade assigned by an obstreperous
professor.
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| "The
Innocent Gift" (2 pages) |
A
faculty member gives an administrative assistant a
gift as compensation for unauthorized overtime work.
|
| "Moonlight
and Sunshine" (2 pages) |
Faculty
moonlighting causes hard feelings in the department
and creates potential conflicts of interest.
|
| "Between
the Rock and a Hard Place" (2 pages) |
A
Chair tries to sort out the rights and responsibilities
of the departmental administrative assistant vis-à-vis
the expectations of different departmental faculty.
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|
Chairs and Deans
|
"Clearing
Trees and Planting Seeds" (3 pages) |
A
Chair seeks the Dean's advice on making a very difficult
colleague take on a needed assignment.
|
| "Rumors
and Ruminations" (2 pages) |
Senior
faculty from different departments compare inconsistent
interpretations of college budget policy.
|
|
"Eye
of the Beholder" (1 page) |
The
new Chair's evaluation of an untenured faculty colleague
is seriously inconsistent with the past Chair's.
|
| "You
Can't Copyright an Idea" (1
page) |
An
angry and aggrieved assistant professor accuses a
senior colleague of plagiarizing research.
|
|
Deans
and Associate Dean Leadership Teams
|
"The
Dean Team" (2 pages) |
The
strength of an established leadership team is threatened
by divergent expectations and aspirations.
|
| "Let
Me Count the Ways" (2 pages) |
A
good Associate Dean struggles with the approaches
taken by a newly appointed Dean.
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| Deans |
"The
Powerdiving Probationer" (3 pages)
|
A
new assistant professor alienates almost all departmental
colleagues in record time.
|
| "The
Evaluation Appeal" (2 pages) |
A faculty member appeals an unfavorable departmental
evaluation on grounds of both merit and disability.
|
| "Welcome
Back, Popper" (1 page) |
Just
before the term starts the Dean learns that a tenured
professor, whose courses are fully enrolled, may need
a disability leave relating to substance abuse.
|
| "Friends
and Family" (1 page) |
A
Chair's enthusiasm for hiring a talented friend threatens
to generate multiple problems.
|
| "Never
Again: The Promotion Denial" (2
pages) |
A
new President, seeking to raise standards, denies
promotion to a long serving associate dean whom the
Dean wants to support.
|
|
Chief
Academic Officers
|
"The
One-time Budget Fix" (2 pages)
|
An
in-basket awash in budget problems leads the Vice
President seriously to consider selling parts of the
curriculum.
|
| "Serving
the Stockholder's Interests" (1
page) |
An
influential benefactor and an angry President demand
that an offending assistant professor be summarily
fired.
|
| "The
Free Market of Ideas" (2
pages) |
Questions
of intellectual property rights and curricular control
emerge when a star professor's course is sold.
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| "The
Husband's Wife's Professor" (2
pages) |
The
husband's attorney demands that college take steps
to end an alleged affair between the wife and her
professor.
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| Presidents |
"Thanks"
or "No Thanks" (1 page) |
A trustee offers you a 1.5M piece of property
and a 40M building, but the gift comes with a few strings.
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