I'm Baffled That I Did Not Know I Had a Cool Dean...

I drove one of our deans to Cincinnati today for a meeting on "administrative bloat" that some state colleagues were having as part of their own faculty symposium.

She's always been nice, and she came from the faculty. We had a funny conversation on the way there and a good day and a good lunch.

Driving back we listened to some music, and I dialed up my copy of PhD Blues by Cal.

This part played:

I've got my post-tenure review,
this afternoon with the Dean.
I'm going to skip it and go out golfing.
I'm going to smoke a little weed....

My Dean smiled and said, "It's after the post-tenure review when I smoke a little weed."

Who's cooler than her?

An Update on Jim Wetherbe. (Now With Crampicle Text, Thanks to Several Readers.)

Late in 2012 we linked to an IHE piece on the curious case of Jim Wetherbe who suspected he was being punished by his institution because of his anti-tenure stand.

Since that time Wetherbe has continued to press his case.

The story continued Tuesday in the Crampicle, and we will provide the text for the next couple of days only here.