Dean of the Faculty Joseph R. Urgo published an article in symploke, a comparative theory and literature journal. The article, "Collegiality and Academic Community," appears in volume 13, numbers 1-2. In it, Urgo writes, "…When a member of the academic administration, Provost, Dean or Department Chair is on the job, the work he or she does concerns, above all else, the human relationships that make up the institution." He notes, "Collegiality, the suggestion that we recognize and even enforce certain communal, behavioral norms, is the creation of the administrative mind, arising out of the conditions of administrative work, and in direct response to recent trends in the doing of academic work that discourages community."
Symploke is published by the University of Nebraska Press.
