It’s just so happened that today is also the day when I enter the final grades for my summer course and my sabbatical truly begins. So I have extra reasons to celebrate. Here is a little story that illustrates the importance of democracy.
As you know, I completed my second term as department chair and, in the spirit of a peaceful democratic transfer of power, stepped down from this role on June 30. It so happens that my department has to make an important decision in the first two weeks of July. We know what the right decision is, but we are also well aware that there are two people who are going to become very upset and litigious. I didn’t even want to imagine all of the drama they were going to generate. I told the new department chair that making the right decision was going to plunge her into a quagmire of grievances and complaints. But she’s fresh into the job, full of energy, and doesn’t really care. This is the energy I most definitely do not have after dealing with similar kinds of drama during my two terms in the position.
Transfer of power is important because people get jaded and low-energy.
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