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June 9, 2010
The upside of being department chair?
One keeps discovering that things can be thrown away! I was rereading the Chairs Handbook and discovered that we are supposed to keep course evaluations until faculty members are promoted to full professor - but that then we only have to save them for the most recent five years. Our paragon of a departmental secretary has has only covered one professor and has emptied a whole file drawer!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 9, 2010 12:22 PM
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You'll learn, too, the art of forgetting certain requirements, like having to keep application materials for faculty candidates ten years (or whatever ridiculous number of years it is). Oops -- forgot that one -- after three years they were "accidentally" sent to the confidential shredding bin!
Posted by: Katherine at June 14, 2010 12:24 AM