[Magdalen] Pray for GTS today

[Charles Wohlers]

Worst case scenario: They'll lose accreditation due to how they've treated 
the faculty, and close in a year or two.
Best case scenario: They limp along, damaged by all the bru-ha-ha, and close 
in ten years.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: James Oppenheimer
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 7:34 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Pray for GTS today

I have some experience with boards of trustees.  They tend not to be
involved in the institutions they direct, and don't really want any
"problems," that is, something that requires them to do their job in a
pinch.  They also may very well have crafted their decision with the full
intent of getting rid of Dunkle at a later time when it doesn't make them
look quite so dumb (they were, after all, the suckers who hired that
martinet to begin with, so if they fire him [now] they look like idiots)

And of course, the faculty violated one of the biggest rules: The power
brokers always, always demand it -- but you must never ever, EVER speak
truth to power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am personally very disappointed in he action of the board of trustees.
> Judy
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Don Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Am I correct in inferring that the GTS Boards message to Dean Dunkle is
> > "Attaboy, keep up the good work," and to the "resigned" faculty it is 
> > "If
> > you are willing to eat the heaping plate of crow we place before you, we
> > may reinstate you for the remainder of this academic year"?  Might a
> > further inference that Dean Dunkle is doing exactly what they intended
> when
> > they hired him be justified?
> >
> > Sayres' Law, promulgated in the middle of the last century, said:
> > "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics,
> because
> > the stakes are so low."   One can find references to the viciousness of
> > ecclesiastical politics going back for many centuries.  This GTS case
> makes
> > me suspect that when the  political practicioners are both ecclesiasts
> and
> > academics, all hell will break loose.
> >
> > Lord, have mercy.  Christ, have mercy.  Lord, have mercy.
> >
> > Don in Austin
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Hagen" <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> > To: "magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 5:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Pray for GTS today
> >
> >
> >
> >  Episcopal Cafe has the update:
> >> http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/seminaries/gts_board_
> >> dean_to_stay_faculty.html
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Judy Fleener, ObJN
> Western Michigan
>