Pavitra wrote: > Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Ed Murphy<emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >>> Wooble wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't been around for nearly that long, but I always assumed it >>>> was a Drew Carey reference. >>> It was. >>> >>> >> But he's the Assistant Director of Personnel, not the Associate >> Director of Personnel, and certainly not the *International* Associate >> Director of Personnel. > > As explained elsewhere in this thread, it started as the Assistant DoP, > and the title was incrementally inflated until it got where it is today.
The original title was my idea, as was International (Drew was the International Assistant DoP at one point); Associate was someone else's (perhaps based on assistant and associate professorships).