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  • A Midsummer Night's Dean

    The 4th of July is here, the traditional mid-point of American summers. Perhaps you, like me, feel like the summer is far past being half over by this time. The 8-week summer session is about half finished. Other college summer activities are completed already, while some are just getting started. Here...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 07-03-2008

  • Fact and Fiction

    Two friends of mine used to argue good-naturedly about their preferences for reading non-fiction versus fiction. The non-fiction fan would say, "There is too much information in the world for me to learn to spend time reading books that are not true." The fiction reader would staunchly retort...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 06-04-2008

  • Wii're In This Together

    My eight-year old son has learned How to Get Ahead in Life Lesson 37: Acquire a knowledge advantage over your opponent and exploit it . His grandparents' Wii game system is living at our house while they're on vacation, and I have found that Evan rarely challenges me to a game that he has not...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 05-01-2008

  • The Need to Lead

    The higher one's position in academic administration, the more one's effectiveness depends on the leadership performed by others. After nearly a year in the Dean's Office I have new appreciation for the importance of decisions and planning that happen at all levels across the college, and...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 04-01-2008

  • I'm Giving Up Futons, and Not Just For Lent

    Tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping in my own bed for the first time in nearly two months. If Providence is kind, my wife and I never again will have to sleep on a futon as we have had to do since the week before last Christmas. That was when the sledgehammers began flying in the master bath...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 02-08-2008

  • Living in the Land of Both/And

    Like many of you I imagine, I am uneasy with lines of thought that force either/or bifurcations. The world seems much too complex and poetic for the answers to be neatly divided into mutually exclusive categories. At minimum there usually is a third option -- my children always seemed to come up with...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 01-15-2008

  • The College of Human Expression

    Speaking to members of the Board of Governors and several other university administrators, I was trying to give a succinct description of what gives the many varied disciplines within our college a shared identity and purpose. "If someone told us today," I said, "that we could no longer...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 12-01-2007

  • Insights from a 200-pound gorilla

    Twice this past week I have donned a gorilla suit for the purpose of -- well, no purpose really, just the excuse of it being Halloween and people are less likely to think you're crazy for wearing a gorilla suit then than, say, on Easter or the Fourth of July. I spent a couple of hours in costume...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 11-01-2007

  • Confessions of a Lapsed Patron

    In 1983 I had the singular pleasure of meeting Luciano Pavarotti backstage at a performance in Kansas City and getting his autograph. The great tenor's recent passing prompted me to think again, as I have countless times over the past 20 years, "I really should pull that out of the old box in...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 10-01-2007

  • September 4, 2007

    In addition to relief from August temperatures (we certainly hope), September brings many other welcome occasions to the College of Arts and Letters . The tenth annual Ozarks Celebration Festival kicks off this Friday with a free concert by local favorite Big Smith and continues through September 14...
    Posted to Dean's Blog (Weblog) by Carey Adams on 09-05-2007
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