{"id":163,"date":"2013-06-24T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:17:39","slug":"the-last-week-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/06\/24\/the-last-week-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Week of &#8220;Freedom&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This day next week will be my first day as Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. While I&#8217;m very much looking forward to joining the ranks of full-time administrators, I can&#8217;t escape years of socialization about the perils of administration: last week I closed an email to a departing department chair with &#8220;enjoy your freedom!&#8221; I should have said something like &#8220;enjoy your summer break, but in the fall you will be emailing me about wanting your chairship back!&#8221; Yes, that&#8217;s wishful thinking, I know. Few faculty members fall in love with the processes of administrative life, such as the loss of control of one&#8217;s calendar. While I enjoyed going to many meetings as a department chair, they will ramp up exponentially as a dean&#8230;27 are already on the books for July (!). Maybe I should be telling myself to enjoy this last week in my primary role as a faculty member? No, I&#8217;m ready to get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day next week will be my first day as Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. While I&#8217;m very much looking forward to joining the ranks of full-time administrators, I can&#8217;t escape years of socialization about the perils of administration: last week I closed an email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[22222,3417,2051],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-academic-administration","tag-roles","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}