{"id":1968,"date":"2013-05-15T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2013-05-15T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:38:07","slug":"welcome-walt-dispatches-from-a-new-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2013\/05\/15\/welcome-walt-dispatches-from-a-new-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Walt! Dispatches from a New Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2013\/05\/walt.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1971\" alt=\"walt\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2013\/05\/walt-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The bad news is that our great friend is heading out of town. The spine-crushingly good news is that Professor Walt Jacobs will now be contributing regularly to the TSP community pages, in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/\">Dispatches from a New Dean<\/a>. A sociologist and recent chair of African and African American Studies in Minnesota, Walt&#8217;s just starting a new job as the social sciences dean at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.<\/p>\n<p>As you might have heard in his podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2010\/03\/19\/race-and-comedy\/\">race and comedy<\/a>, Walt has a keen eye and ear for the telling detail. He&#8217;s also a terrific academic leader, who uses sociology to good advantage in organizing people and resources. In Dispatches, Walt will be sharing these experiences, showing how a good social scientist wrestles with the demands and opportunities of higher administration.\u00a0I&#8217;ve never met anyone in academic administration who worked harder or with greater sensitivity to the needs and interests of a larger community. Did you hear the line about commitment and breakfast? [That is, in a bacon and egg breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is <em>committed<\/em>.] Well, Walt is <em>committed<\/em>. He&#8217;s heading off to Wisconsin and, by all reports, living amongst the first-year sociology students. We&#8217;re sorry to see him go, but <em>so<\/em> happy he&#8217;s staying on TSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that our great friend is heading out of town. The spine-crushingly good news is that Professor Walt Jacobs will now be contributing regularly to the TSP community pages, in his\u00a0Dispatches from a New Dean. A sociologist and recent chair of African and African American Studies in Minnesota, Walt&#8217;s just starting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}