Assign
A Faculty Office Selection Protocol
In 1997, upon request of the elected faculty council, Mort Pincus and I devised an impartial office assigment protocol for selection of faculty offices within the University of Iowa College of Business. While the whole idea may seem rather silly, the goal is to change what might be a contentious process into an unambiguous, fair, and transparent one. After all, Henry Kissinger is claimed to have said (freely paraphrased) that faculty politics are the most wicked type of politics, given that so little is at stake.
Click here to read our original office protocol proposal.
This software was developed by Alberto Maria Segre and is copyrighted by The University of Iowa. Permission is hereby given to use and reproduce this software for non-profit educational purposes only.
The current release of assign is version 1.0 (January 22, 1998).
Click here to download the software in Unix tgz format.
Click here to download the software in PKZip format.
Download and unpack the compressed tar archive; the ReadMe file contains information for compiling and running the program. If you are running Windows, download the zip archive, which contains a precompiled DOS executable.