Wonderful. When I stopped laughing, I emailed it to a sibling who is a university administrator and also to some co-workers. Then I hard copied it to another who said he'd seen it before. So I did a Web search, and found a claim that the Administratium announcement was originally authored by William DeBuvitz in April 1988 while teaching physics at a county college. According to hte Web site, he submitted it to THE PHYSICS TEACHER magazine and it was published in the January 1989 issue (page 47).

I have no idea if the claim is real or bogus; in other words, the Administratium announcement is clearly folklore (netlore/jokelore), but is the attribution to DeBuvitz folklore as well (urban legend)?