Opinion

Scheduling disrupts good life

You live a life of glamour. You are constantly hobnobbing with the rich and famous, traveling to exotic places and attending social functions where people with trays offer you things to nibble on.

Who are you?

Exactly.

A department chair.

But your life of excess is tempered by one duty: course scheduling. Every semester you must figure out how to fit 50 classes into the College’s weekly calendar. You have to decide whether international management gets taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — and to make sure that corporate strategy is not offered at ...
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