DI: Do you think there’s a sense, then, that it was worth what happened in October?
RD: You mean the protest? No. The chairman of the MSA committee praised the university for its great history and for all the good things that we have done over the years, but then he balanced that by saying, “The protest was a mistake, a huge mistake. It should have never happened.” And you can’t really argue with that.
There are lessons for us to be learned from this experience, and we are going to learn them. But to answer your question, there
were no winners.
DI: So what is your hope for the next two years?
RD: Well, two years is hardly enough time. Nevertheless, I want to heal the campus; I want to comply with all the MSA expectations; I want our accreditation to be up front and solid; I want us to update our databases so that we can make good decisions; I want to engage in as much curriculum reform as we can; I want to have a working agenda that … a new president could pick up and move forward.
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