A student who serves on this committee has informed me that it is effectively powerless, as evidenced by the fact that it has only successfully passed 1 proposal thus far. One might say it wrote itself. The cause for concern here is not necessarily motivated by any one factor on this list, but rather, by the combination of them all, especially when viewed in light of the public documents President Osgood has released regarding diversity and the Fund for Excellence on his webpage. I encourage you to peruse these statements, which are linked to our homepage through the President's Office. I have spoken with a number of students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the course of my research for this article.
Some faculty feel disenfranchised.
There is the feeling that a number of decisions have been made and things have happened on campus with little or no explanation. Faculty and staff of color do not feel supported at the college. The college has NOT demonstrated a concerted effort to value the faculty and staff of color we have already. Changes that have taken place on this campus over the past two years have caused a significant number of resignations, including a combined total of at least 8 resignations in the Offices of Admission and Public Relations alone last year. I encourage anyone who wishes to respond to, address, or correct any of my above statements to do so via the Letters to the Editor section in that issue.