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Life Away from the Pit—Musings on University Life
Connections and Disconnections
The fabric of the school is created by the staff, faculty, and administration. It’s created in the interactions among a diverse cast of characters that includes nonacademic personnel like the landscapers and custodians. The cumulative effect of so many interactions among individual actors is a spirit, a feeling, an atmosphere that permeates an institution. Just as students leave classrooms and focus on those activities that are more central to their lives, faculty members find themselves in the web of institutional relationships.
The individual-versus-collective dynamic is often evident in universities. Outside the classroom, faculty members are supposed ...
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