By Jim Shimabukuro
Editor
At my college, two of the gutsiest innovations I’ve ever seen involved administrators. These happened a few years ago, but they still resonate with me. In the first case, he decided to abandon the daily hardcopy announcements that filled our wooden mailboxes. Most of them went directly from our boxes to the trashcan anyway so this was a physical relief for many. From the appointed day, the announcements would be distributed via email.
There was an uproar. “What about those of us who don’t use our email accounts?” or “What about those of us who don’t like to do our reading on computer screens?” and my favorite: “What about those of us who archive them for future reference?” Indeed, as new faculty, we were all issued a two-hole punch and a clipboard with two long metal forks (which looked like huge paper clips standing on end, with one end embedded in the board) that held the announcements via the punched holes. Most of us didn’t know what to do with these, and they quickly gathered dust in out of the way nooks. Continue reading
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