You know, dean colleagues, I sometimes wonder what keeps me in this wacky enterprise of academic administration. After all, ours is not the happiest of professions. Indeed, it is frightfully easy for us to dwell on the downside of deaning. When you drag your weary body home at the end of a typical day in the academic vineyard, what do you tell your spouse or companion or dog? How often do you say, “What delightful deaning I did today”?
Expertise, Credentials, and the Value of the University
It seems we can’t trust our own credentials or those that we provide to our students. Or perhaps it would be better to say that we have so much confidence
Constance C. Relihan
May 18, 2026
