"I hear a #Fool will be lecturing on campus at #CUBoulder this Monday." "How come she gets to have all the fun?"

"The #CUBoulder #Fool left us in here." "Don't worry, she'll be back."

"I do not believe the #CUBoulder #Fool is coming back. What is she planning?"

"I believe the #CUBoulder #Fool said she was going to give advice to the incoming chancellor on Monday. But we are still locked in this room."

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! As #CUBoulder considers who will pilot our plane, I proudly present a packaged proclamation to permit a potentially puzzled person to persist past pitfalls in #highereducation. #alliteration #buffs #colorado #HigherEd

The Fool seems to be the only person in Higher Ed who is licensed and even required to speak forthrightly on everything under the sun. It's been my advantage that nobody else wants the job. Remember, this Official Presidential Proclamation appoints me as #CUBoulder Fool.

Quotations from Enid Welsford's "The Fool: His Social and Literary History," 1935: Question: “What is a Fool?” Answer: A person “who falls below the average human standard, but whose defects have been transformed into a source of delight...” #CUBoulder #Fool #History #Literature

Quotations from Enid Welsford's "The Fool: His Social and Literary History," 1935: The Fool proper: a person “whose real or assumed infirmities have detached [her] from [her] fellows and marked [her] as predestined for comedy.” #CUBoulder #Fool #History #Literature

Quotations from Enid Welsford's "The Fool: His Social and Literary History," 1935: The Fool “is more often than not a real and very robust personality.” #CUBoulder #Fool #History #Literature

Quotations from Enid Welsford's "The Fool: His Social and Literary History," 1935: “Does comedy act on the spiritual system as a vitamin or a narcotic? Does the enjoyment of it involve deeper insight, keener criticism, or deliberate evasion of reality?” #CUBoulder #Fool #History

Across the nation, some administrators in #HigherEducation seem to have mistaken Franz Kafka's novels "The Trial" and "The Castle" for how-to-guides for leadership. Correcting this error presents a compelling reason to pay more attention to the #Humanities. #CUBoulder #Kafka

#Fools rush in where far more sensible people in #academia size up the risk and decide to keep quiet. At the drop of a Fool's cap, the Patty Limerick will welcome the invitation to engage in public conversations with any campus leaders on any of the issues she raises. #HigherEd

In light of recent meetings of the #CUBoulder Board of Regents, it bears reminding that I possess documentation proclaiming me as The Official University of Colorado Fool! #HigherEd #Academia

The University Fool is an important office, and it is a lot to ask of a person who has other important jobs, the application period for the positions of Vice Fool, Associate Fool, and Assistant Fool opened April 1, 2024, and remain open until the positions are filled. #CUBoulder

Here is a painful question the Patty Limerick is compelled to ask: to what degree should she take responsibility for the proliferation of foolish ideas in #academia? #CUBoulder #SkoBuffs #HigherEd #Education #College #Universities

Speaking forthrightly, the Fool hopes to assure people in #HigherEd that, until free expression regains its standing, she is going to do her best to speak on their behalf, since she's the only one with an actual license. #CUBoulder #Academia #AdministativeCensorship

Congenitally cheerful, the #Fool is hard to discourage or disillusion. But the disparity between the values proclaimed by #University leaders and their actual practices can bring on an episode of despair for even the most cheerful of Fools. #CUBoulder #HigherEd #Academia

A Fool's Hope: Given that the search for the Chancellor of #CUBoulder deferred to the reluctance of job candidates to be identified, the new Chancellor will surely extend the same courtesy of protected anonymity to finalists for professorial positions at CU. #HigherEducation

Big Prize Competition on the horizon! A dinner with the #Fool for whoever can get the Fool's "Welcome Aboard" Recommendations into the hands of the new Chancellor of CU Boulder 🦬! #CUBoulder #HigherEducation #Academia #Foolish