Your analysis treats the board’s statement on it’s own, but unfortunately assumes that it is a reliable guide even to the context. The MVNU faculty have become very used to change, fiscal constraints, and hard choices over the last decade; that’s not even the issue. Also, the faculty vote was before any of them were fired (though after numerous resignations by staff and administrators who found the working environment to be hostile). What inspired the faculty vote of no confidence is the president’s pattern of spying, threatening, and narcissistic misrepresentation that create an atmosphere of fear. Furthermore, he is unable or unwilling to articulate a positive strategy or criteria for action, thus fostering an atmosphere of arbitrariness. Hence, the faculty’s vote of no confidence in this specific president.
I did have some additional inside information but the specifics of what happened in January were still a little fuzzy. I may write again about MVNU as more information comes to light. My primary purpose here was to examine how messages from trustees are often incomplete and sometimes little more than gaslighting.
Your analysis treats the board’s statement on it’s own, but unfortunately assumes that it is a reliable guide even to the context. The MVNU faculty have become very used to change, fiscal constraints, and hard choices over the last decade; that’s not even the issue. Also, the faculty vote was before any of them were fired (though after numerous resignations by staff and administrators who found the working environment to be hostile). What inspired the faculty vote of no confidence is the president’s pattern of spying, threatening, and narcissistic misrepresentation that create an atmosphere of fear. Furthermore, he is unable or unwilling to articulate a positive strategy or criteria for action, thus fostering an atmosphere of arbitrariness. Hence, the faculty’s vote of no confidence in this specific president.
I did have some additional inside information but the specifics of what happened in January were still a little fuzzy. I may write again about MVNU as more information comes to light. My primary purpose here was to examine how messages from trustees are often incomplete and sometimes little more than gaslighting.