Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
1993 Conference Capstone Address: An Outsider's View of POD Values-and of POD's Value to the Academy
Date of this Version
1994
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy, published by the Professional and Organizational
Development Network in Higher Education, volume 13, 1994.
Abstract
Thank you for inviting me and for making me feel so much at home. It must have been that mention of the Holy Grail in my background that led Suzanne Brown to invite me here, since we are all questing, probably on similar routes. It seems to me that one could not be actively engaged in POD, or in the Society for Values in Higher Education, without being part idealist, part evangelist, and part missionary. A colleague of mine from Mount Enterprise Texas added a new verb to my organizational vocabulary when he told me about Texas missionary friends of his, about whom he said, "They've just got to mish." We're not exactly "mishing," but we certainly do have a mission. That's why I'm here. I'm guessing it's why you're here, too, at the last event and on the last day of an exhausting and stimulating conference.
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