It’s Time for College. But Are You Feeling Collegial?

This periodical, from Hanoi, published a reference to “collegiality” in 1887.”

The word looks harmless enough. Who doesn’t want to be collegial? To be perceived as collegial? Sometimes, though,  it can seem as if there’s no more elusive, and maybe treacherous, term in academe than collegiality.

Alas, collegiality has developed a reputation as the wild card in professional evaluations. It is the quality one lacks, not the quality one possesses, that can worm its way into a professional evaluati...