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(05-24-2019, 05:20 PM)Dill Wrote: It's my "opinion" that universities, including Taylor, operate under shared governance? (link provided in post # 104 above.) Your claim that disgruntled employees dissed their "owners" is not opinion?

And yes, no evidence you understand shared governance when you continue to describe the employees who engaged Pence to speak as "employers" and faculty as THEIR disrespectful "employees."  All you've done now is move the Board to the "owners" position on your business organization chart, with no sense of their accountability in the checks and balances of governance.

Faculty voted 61-49 against the Pence invite, i.e., faculty voice was dissed in this case
https://www.theechonews.com/article/2019/04/commencement-stirs-controversy

As was the voice of students who mustered an online protest with 8,000 signatures.
Protest U.S. Vice President Pence Delivering Commencement Address at Taylor University
https://www.change.org/p/taylor-university-president-paul-lowell-haines-protest-vice-president-mike-pence-at-taylor-university-commencement-ceremony?recruiter=951596827&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=4db03280-5c76-11e9-b1eb-79afc2552f3f

"Employees" don't have a voice in what an OWNER does with his business. How is it that faculty have, by law, a voice in what administrators and board do with a university?

This is not Pence's first controversy, by the way. Students walked when he spoke at the Notre Dame graduation in 2017. That university broke its tradition of inviting newly inaugurated presidents to speak and refused to invite Trump. Politics before anyone spoke anywhere.  

So if these "non-employees" had a voice in what the OWNER does, and the majority voted he not speak, why did he speak? 

But I will say kudos to the vast majority of faculty who didn't walk out given the majority vote. But of course they chose not to make the event about themselves.


EDIT: MY POINT IS THE PUBLIC-FACING EVENT AT WHICH IT HAPPEN.......whew dodged a bullet.