Persona 1 (Terry Dixon)
College of Engineering and Computing Chair at Hudson University
New York, NY
55 Years Old
Married with 3 Children
Education: B.S. in Computer Science, Duke University
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Duke University
Annual Income: $115,000
Dr. Dixon is a loving husband to his wife Jenny and an involved father to his three daughters Jesse, Jamie, and Josie. Dr. Dixon is the College of Engineering and Computing Chair at Hudson University. His job keeps him on campus from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Monday through Friday , even during the summer, since his department is continuously evolving and expanding. Each afternoon after he leaves work, Dr. Dixon tries to attend each of his daughters' extracurricular activities, Jesse's volleyball games, Jamies's ballet recitals, and Josie's math competitions. Dr. Dixon dreads the start and end of every semester because he must personally search through tremendous amounts of data such as student evaluations, research grant statuses, publications, etc. for all the professors and instructors in his department. Every semester, this increase in workload overwhelms Dr. Dixon and throws his work-life balance out the window.
Dr. Dixon wants to speed up this tedious process so that he can make informed and rational decisions about his department while still maintaining his work life balance to avoid burn out.