What should the CIO do to retain sanity? Stranger than Fiction What should the CIO do to retain sanity?
Scenario One One student tells another student she is having an affair with her instructor, and another faculty member in the department overhears the conversation and reports it to you. What do you do?
Scenario Two A faculty member has a loaded gun in his drawer in his office – a custodian came across it and reported it. What do you do?
Scenario Three A full-time tenured faculty member has decided to cancel all of his classes for the week to protest gun violence and because he does not feel safe on campus. What do you do?
Scenario Four A more mature faculty member is reported to be spending significant amounts of class time talking about her cat, Boots. You discover that Boots died last year. Students also report she is confused about assignments and due dates. What do you do?
Scenario Five Department chair calls and says a full-time faculty member’s husband suddenly died over the weekend. The faculty member says she may miss a few classes, but she will “take care of things” and asked the chair not to share the information with anyone. What do you do?
Scenario Six A faculty member sees some negative information about herself posted by a student on Rate My Professor and wants it removed immediately. What do you do?
Scenario Seven You receive a report from HR that the President of the Faculty Union was arrested over the weekend for domestic violence. He has not reported it to you. What do you do?
Scenario Eight One of your deans had a grievance filed against him by a full-time faculty member for not scheduling him to teach three online sections as overload. He has been given three online overload sections once in the past. What do you do?
Scenario Nine One of your deans has taken sick leave, and then someone at the college reports that another college posted a video of his public forum for a vice president job that took place during his “sick” time. He had not mentioned his application to you. What do you do?