Hazardous Jobs #523: Dean of Undergraduate Studies

From Bob Sloan's rumination on the joys of being an NSF program manager:

When I left for NSF, I was Director of Undergraduate Studies for a department that had well over 600 majors at the height of the dot com boom. The previous two holders of that position had only ended their time in it by leaving the country in one case and dying in the other—both far more extreme than going to NSF for a couple of years