[Alumni-chat] Re: Student trustees

[Steven Duffy]

Duffy here..
look to be honest...in YS we are all living the advanced blame the victim
game.  We all need to learn from this hot mess.

we have gotten here because our previous governance structure..although
run by   intelligent and mostly well-meaning people was too removed from
everyday life.  I know and like many of them.

How could anyone expect to know what's going on (to make good decisions in
times of chaos) when they are dealing with multiple campuses and only
meeting three times a year and rotating from pillar to post?

The  decisions that get made are based on information received.  and that
information stream was impoifect.  Those imperfections multiply....like a
sourdough culture...
no wonder our culture seemed sour......but it actually has some good
taste, eh?  To discover that truth you would actually hafta sit and
interact with the younger folks.

Getting the information our previous structure got was 
 like playing the telephone game......information about what works and
doesn't gets garbled and skewed...and the result is sub optimal and hardly
understandable decisions  and client dissatifaction...whether it be current

students or folks back to Arthur Dole....  that means not too good for R
and R..i.e., revenue and retention...

Good stewardship means finding out what is the real deal.    So having
input from diifferent sectors.....is a plus.   adding a student, fac  or a
staff person  can only help.

We need folks to be on the ground.   You would really have to have a tough
selection process.........and even an oath on a stack on bibles and
Antioch notes.

You really have to wonder, for example....when we had a giant community
dinner in October....with probably 400 people including YS folk......the
folks who didn't come were the ones who were 

our "Stewards".

I would like a Board that will come here and eat in the caf with the
Community.  (either during assigned times or on the DL) The evening we had
that large YS and Community dinner our Stewards were at the Green

Country club....about  three miles but actually light years away.   There
was seventy years worth of YS and alums and faculty at that dinner...they
missed some good company..
and the lasagne was good comfort food....and the deserts. (which were
fronted by the Alum Board)

Let's rebuild carefully and completely.    It will be worth it.

Yours from somewhere between utopia and where you are....


Duffy '77

P.S> Yazz.....the library world in  Ohio is much better than in Maryland. 
OHIOLINK is really a crown jewel of academic library  resources.
There is another Marylander out there who can explain things to you to
raise your consciouness.  You should converse with him.
and if you are an advocate for libraries (and the college)  contact him
about joining the fledging advocacy group for supporting the library 
i.love.olive.org.....

His email address is timothynoble at gmail.com...     

Tim Noble who is now getting his masters in yer old state.  and says
OHIOLINK seems far superior....

you know what they say about Maryland the best of two worlds...northern
hospitality and southern efficiency...

Our problem is being able to keep up with the monies for the membership
dues and having enough library faculty to teach what is called
Bibliographic instruction.

We have it all at our fingertips in this state but need some angels to
help pay those pricey three year contracts......and those faculty salaries.

end homily and chat..excuse syntax..chat is chat and that is that