I recently found a very funny piece by “Dean Dad” on the Inside Higher Ed website that presents the initial faculty meeting to kick off the school year you all love, but given in the style of Stephen Colbert’s “The Word” segment.
Here’s some snippets:
Faculty and distinguished colleagues,
(Slide: “And the undistinguished among you, too…”)
welcome back from what I hope was a restful summer.
(“You’re gonna need it…”)
As you know, we have record enrollments this year, combined with a severe funding cut
(“Rhymes with flusterduck…“)
Read the entire article.

















