{"id":151,"date":"2013-06-12T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=151"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:56:51","slug":"graceful-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/06\/12\/graceful-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Graceful Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago\u00a0<em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> printed <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Good-Goodbye\/139681\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Good Goodbye,&#8221;<\/a> an article about gracefully exiting an institution of higher education when one has accepted a job elsewhere. I&#8217;ll have to keep author David Perlmutter&#8217;s tips in mind when I return to the University of Minnesota next week for the last time to attend meetings. Most especially, I&#8217;ll need to remember that &#8220;parting shots reflect badly on you. If you have indeed chafed in your position, leaving is the best revenge. No need to add insults to your escape from injury.&#8221; While &#8220;chafed&#8221; is not the right word for my tenure as a department chair, I did have to make unpopular decisions that upset folks. The vast majority of my experiences were positive, however, so it&#8217;s easy for me to implement Perlmutter&#8217;s closing piece of advice: &#8220;whatever you feel about your present institution, you owe it a professional and minimally painful exit.&#8221; Indeed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education printed &#8220;The Good Goodbye,&#8221; an article about gracefully exiting an institution of higher education when one has accepted a job elsewhere. I&#8217;ll have to keep author David Perlmutter&#8217;s tips in mind when I return to the University of Minnesota next week for the last time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22231,2051],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-job-transitions","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}