Now that September has come, most colleagues are back from their summer holidays, and students are slowly filling up our campus again, it’s time to realize that the new academic year is officially almost here. Well, not quite until late September, but work has already started to pick up.
New goals
Just like the 1st of January, it’s now the time for resolutions for us in higher education. What will my resolutions be for this academic year? Let’s see: to be as effective as I can in my job, to boost entrepreneurship as much as I can among academics and students, to adapt to the new structure as best as I can, and generally to serve my office’s purposes in the best possible way.
New responsibilities
There are plenty of those already. I have been assigned the project management of a couple of entrepreneurship competitions, the organization of a major profile-raising entrepreneurship event in November, the conduct of some important research, and the sole responsibility to help out the academics of a specific department with their external funding applications. So I can’t complain about those.
New students
I have always felt that one of the most exciting parts of working for a university is the fact that there are new students every single year, with new goals, dreams and expectations, which you have to find new ways to address every single time. This constant renewal is what makes life here more interesting and unpredictable, and what helps us develop and improve.
So I am definitely looking forward to another academic year and I hope that I will have accumulated invaluable experiences by the end of it.
