When I launched One Dean’s View in September of 2007 I wanted to open up “a more direct line of communication with students.”   My belief then—and now—is that blogs such as this one give administrators and students a forum for discussing issues that get often sidetracked or shortchanged in more conventional forms of communication, [...]

My leave is over.  It ended on July 1, and the fact that I’ve waited this long to post anything here could be taken to mean that I wish I were still on leave.   But that’s not entirely true since I made good headway on my project—good meaning that I now have a finished manuscript [...]