We Need You. Please Don't Come.

WORK environment; OFFICE politics; COLLEGE teachers; UNIVERSITY & college administration; HIGHER education & state; EMPLOYMENT

The author, an administrator from the University of Arizona, discusses the ethics of hiring qualified college teachers to work in departments that are known to have difficult coworkers. Workplace environment, interpersonal communication in the workplace, and competition for college jobs are discussed, as well as college administration and state regulation of higher education.