Exec Committee mtg with Pres

As a member of the Executive Committee of A&S Council, I was proud to be on our side of the table yesterday.

Let's remember the basics:

Lloyd Jacobs cares nothing about the academic integrity of the College and only about sustaining his power and control over the University.

He proved his incompetence in calling for an outside review of the College in response to a no-confidence vote. This is inappropriate and only poses a further threat to the College (above and beyond the ongoing presence of the Dean).

I would like to begin discussing the possibility of a strategy of non-cooperation. What that would look like, I do not know. But I believe there is no convincing or persuading this President. He has turned this into a public power struggle. (I could use crude language that would be more to the point, but will refrain for now.)

He said he wants us to support and work with with the Dean. We made clear that is what we have been doing for 11 months and that will no longer be possible. We cannot possible, with any integrity, work with a person we have declare publicly to be incompetent.

We have to do something as soon as possible before they do further damage to our University. This means putting pressure on the BOT that they cannot afford to ignore. They must either tell this President to back off and ask the Dean to resign and to start working with the faculty, students, and staff to repair the damage he has done or they must ask him to resign.

I hope this blog will be a place for strategizing as much as it is a necessary place to vent our outrage at the insulting behavior of those who think they own this place.