To the Faculty:

Our role in the university is never as passive recipients of action, nor merely as responders to the work of others. We also are initiators of the work that makes a university what it must be.

-- from "Simple, Non-Threatening, Courageous Acts"

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Outward Calm on Campus

With students gone from campus, and with faculty mostly away, the campus shows very little outward activity. However, we know that administrators and the transition team are very busy. The conversations about the interim president and the communications director are cautiously hopeful.

One puzzling issue has been the status of the Leonard Building, home of the Wiggins Divinity Library and the Divinity School offices. Uncertainty continues about whether the building is going to be open through the summer. Closed on Friday, it reopened on Monday. Then this morning, it was locked again, only to be reopened later in the morning. I assume that this is part of the sorting out of decision-making that goes with a sudden transition like the one we are going through. It's confusing, but not really that big a deal.

The new web site welcome page looks very good. We look forward to seeing additional revised and new pages making it to the web soon. We pray for and want to support the efforts of the transition team and administrators who are focusing with renewed energy on the continued flourishing of Shaw University.

Mike Broadway

1 comment:

Mike Broadway said...

The most recent information I have says that the Leonard Building will remain open in June. I am meeting my summer Introduction to Theology class in Leonard this evening.