Finally Took a Moment from Busy Schedules to Tip Glasses with Others Who Received Promotion to Full Professorship in 2024

Scheduling academics is always herding cats, but we somehow agreed on a Monday night dinner and although the restaurants we tried to go to were all closed (Monday night realities) we found Moto open, a glass of wine, salads, and scallops. It was a much needed celebration of the hard work that led up to the application process and the applause that our colleagues saw our work as sustained leadership, teaching, service, and scholarship. We need to celebrate ourselves more and, for a night anyway, we did just that. 

Now, having taken an evening off, I need to double down on the hard work needed to prep tonight's class and Wednesday's turbo. Organization, as always, is the key.

I also had the day to spend at Marvin Elementary where we were treated like gold, given a tour, and met with fabulous teachers who are doing amazing work with their K-5 youth. What a school and what wonderful leadership.

Faculty across the U.S. crave excellent leadership, kindness, integrity, and joy. Yesterday reminded me of all of that. So rarely do we stop to reflect on the hard work it takes to accomplish what we have, but when the moments present themselves, it is a wise investment, indeed.