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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:55:12 CST
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- From: Eric Crump <C509379@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Standardizing Composition Cl
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:32:50 EST from <DATCC@CUNYVM>
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- On Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:32:50 EST David Tillyer, CCNY said:
- >John Slatin talks about getting Deans to make the jump from their personal
- >use of Email to use of Email with writing students. Would that we could
- >do that. I don't think we have more than two department heads on Email,
- >outside of the sciences, let alone Deans!
-
- David: In her discussion of shifting distribution of work functions,
- Zuboff mentions the tendancy of executives to prefer oral communication
- over written forms, which were rationalizable and thus were carved
- out and relegated to middle-management or clerical staff. I probably
- can't do justice to her explanation (somebody bail me out, here) but
- it has to do with the "bodily presence" of oral and non-verbal
- communication and the fact that for execs, that presence was
- helpful in motivating and winning the trust of others, was thought
- to be part of being a good leader, I guess.
-
- Inasmuch as deans are academic execs, the same sort of thing applies.
-
- There was a discussion about this on IPCT-L a couple of months ago,
- and as I recall, several people observed that most deans don't do
- e-mail because they see it as mere correspondence, which is clerical
- (read: women's) work and is therefore an activity unbecoming an
- important personage. Probably something to that.
-
- --Eric Crump
-