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• W159436802 abstract "My favorite metaphor for the life of an honors administrator remains that of a plate spinner. Those of us of a certain age remember them from the Ed Sullivan Show: frantically running from pole to pole, these acrobats had to keep the plates spinning so that none would fall crashing to the stage. Meanwhile, in the background, some classical, frenetic piece of music, often Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, would be playing, faster and faster. Indeed, if a university can be likened to a circus--and many are tempted to do just that--honors administrators are the plate spinners. The phone and the e-mail alerts on our computers are our background music. Unlike the plate spinners of the circus, however, we often find that our plates are not of uniform size and weight: recruitment, enrollment management, retention, development, assessment, budgets, curriculum, undergraduate research, study abroad, national student exchange, service learning, grant writing, editing, proof-reading, parent worries, student crises, et alia. Some of these will begin to teeter at a much faster rate than others. Some we could bear to hear crash to the floor; others we do not dare let leave our sight. Every new idea becomes a new plate, fragile but crucial to the success of our students, and we find ourselves running at such a pace that the more appealing items on Rew Godow's list of roles get pushed to the background. Can one still be a lover of wisdom, for example, if one only rarely has time to think? Indeed, I posed this very question to my provost as I prepared to apply to be an honors dean. After all, should not all leadership positions at a university be occupied by thinking people, those who reflect as well as manage, those who inspire not only through their actions but also because they do still hole up in a library or a lab and contemplate those ideas and questions that led us to this vocation in the first place? Real, deliberate thinking itself thus becomes another plate, spinning perilously close to all the others that far too often brush up against it, sending it skittering across the stage. As a full-time administrator, I am blessed with the opportunity to devote my full energies to administering our Honors College, but at the same time, the siren song of my research, as well as the e-mails and phone calls of the contributors and series editors who await the next stage in my monograph project, are always echoing in my brain. The sparse thinking time I have is often now devoted to my program and not my research, the peril of the newish administrator still trying to be a faculty member. Moreover, those administrators who do not have at least a small scholarly agenda often find themselves victim to faculty jibes that we do not have real academic jobs. We also must model the scholarly life for our students to a greater extent than administrators who do not have quite as much day-to-day interaction with students. …" @default.
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• W159436802 title "Riding a Unicycle Across a Bridge While Juggling: The Musings of an Honors Administrator" @default.
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