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HA, 9/23/06: Meeting leaves USM faculty optimistic

Polyonymous · Status: Offline

The professional comments made by the faculty senate leadership reflect very well on the university. This is an encouraging development with positive press coverage.

LeftASAP · Status: Offline

"Senators, many of whom have clashed publicly with Thames over shared governance issues, were relieved to hear Meredith's idea of a desirable candidate.

"His first words were, 'Someone who can raise money,'" Young said. "But the next thing was that he was looking for someone with a good understanding of shared governance."

What?!! I wonder if Dr. Meredith thinks the current president "has a good understanding of shared governance". That would have been a good question for the Commissioner.

stephen judd · Status: Offline

The question has been posed in a number of other forms by both Senate and AAUP -- it shouldn't be suprising that the Commissoner supplied a diplomatic answer both times. Clearly a Commissioner isn't is going to codemn a sitting president -- but his listing of shared governance as one of his top two concerns should be answer enough . . . this would hardly be an issue if it weren't, so to speak, an issue . . . .

Joe Olmi · Status: Offline

Polyonymous wrote:

The professional comments made by the faculty senate leadership reflect very well on the university. This is an encouraging development with positive press coverage.

From my perspective, the meeting on Friday was very promising. I could not have been more impressed with the interactions between Dr. Meredith and the attending faculty senators. The questions were frank, and the responses appeared thoughtful and true. Steve Oshrin offered an accurate summary of what transpired at the meeting. Am I naive about the politics of the process? I think not. What I have learned over the past several years here is that nothing is totally as it seems. Am I cautiously optimistic? Yes. I can only hope the process is allowed to work with minimal attempts to dictate the outcome. I hope the process results in a "good match" (the words of Dr. Meredith) between USM needs and the qualities of the individual selected to guide the University. I hope that the transition is one filled with truth and data. I trust that there are many here just like me. We are all tired and look forward to having our "day's work" acknowledged for the time and effort we put forth in the name of USM. For my part, I'm willing to place my trust in Dr. Meredith.