Contact Information for Commissioner Crofts - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Feb 16, 2005

Contact Information for Commissioner Crofts

Date: Feb 16, 2005

Thanks to both of you for making this information available.

Date: Feb 17, 2005

I sent the following email this morning on a related but separate issue:

Dear Dr. Crofts:

I read with interest the article in the Clarion Ledger concerning student participation in the board. Bully for you and the board -- that is an excellent idea and long overdue in this state.

However, I'd also like to suggest that the faculty also need a presence as well. If there is one lesson to be learned from what has been occuring at USM, it is how important it is for the Board to have access to a faculty point of view on significant issues. The presence of a faculty member in board deliberations would, I believe, help keep administrative representation of their institutions more balanced and might actually encourage administrators to take faculty views into account in their presentations. I also think that the Board suffers deeply from its lack of contact with faculty and the conditions under which professors work, and the dedication that faculty as a whole have for their work.

This would not be difficult to achieve: the mechanisms of governance are already there. It would be easy for the eight faculty senates to elect a President from among the Senate Presidents to represent the interests of the eight university faculties in the state.

Sincerely,

Stephen Judd, Associate Professor
Director of Theatre, University of Southern Mississiippi

Date: Jan 30, 2006

Today's Clarion Ledger gives an e-mail address for Commissioner Meredith:

commissioner@ihl.state.ms.us