you're just too much of a California girl now to wish the Midwest on you!

I take my accusation back--you are very kind.

NO TAKE BACKS!

eta: since ita wouldn't let me yesterday.

But in the long run it puts all of the power in the hands of the adminstrators.

Totally. I'm very pro-academic profession, BTW, being the daughter of an academic. But going to school to get a Masters of Higher Ed. Administration, is funny, because there are tenured professors who make their living analyzing the various trends of academia and they are also training the next generation of administrators. Occasionally you can really hear a tinge of sourness when my professor refers to the explosive growth "the administrative cadre."

(Thought we were talking about the difficulties inherent in the German and Italian systems, and he did mention that one reason change is hard is that there is practically no administrative level... I'm sure I imagined the begrudging tone... heh.)

Anyway, since I'm not an academic, but I study academics (I'm certainly more interested in that aspect more than the student services field) I feel funny bringing stuff up, because I'm like, an academic roadie or something, a hanger-on, but never to actually be part of the band.

TRY SAYING:

I have these down. Unfortunately, my co-workers have known me long enough that they mostly don't buy it anymore.

We had our end-of-year-wrap-up Town Meeting today, which was completely unsurprising in every way, but at least there was free food and beer. Now that I've had my beer, I want to go home.

since ita wouldn't let me yesterday.

But you took it back anyway, didn't you? Thus setting a precedent.

I have a few TRY SAYINGs I need to do, since I have to inform a business unit of just what they can get for free, and what they can't. I foresee unhappy people, and am suspicious my manager is now glad I'm the one on the project. Apparently this is my thing.

I'm like, an academic roadie or something,

I'd say that Higher Ed. Ad. people are more like producers than roadies. They have to use their sometimes questionable control over resources to convice the unruly groups of faculty and students to get the job done. Getting the job done is the last thing on the minds of either faculty or students, although the first thing on the mind of each group tends to be different. Higher Ed. Ad. is about managing people who are very dedicated to the idea of being unmanagable.

This was in a friend's LJ. I hope they mean peonies.

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Higher Ed. Ad. is about managing people who are very dedicated to the idea of being unmanagable.

I need this on a t-shirt.

Fresh? For only $7.99? That's a hell of a bargain.

Custom-built life sized chocolate rooms

(Can't cut-paste description because the site is ALL GRAPHICS.)