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(05-25-2019, 12:06 AM)Dill Wrote: No one can answer your question, because there is no "owner" of Taylor University.  It is a non-profit corporation operating as a trust.

I merely started talking about other protests because you claimed that, somehow, the protestors in this case "made it about themselves." That assumption speaks to your framing of faculty actions as prima facie illegitimate. What the "owners" want settles it for you.

Taylor is struggling with a civil rights issue right now, centering on a conflict between its Christian mission statement and its commitment to equality and diversity (and adherence to federal regulations regarding this).  The protest is part of this struggle, and like virtually all civil rights protests in US history, this one has its detractors, those who place order and decorum above all else. That is what the protestors "made it about."

More and more explanation of shared governance.  This has three parts--faculty, board, administration--coordinated in a system of checks and balances. It does not mean they all vote as a group on every decision taken by the administration. That would be inefficient. Administration, like faculty in education matters, has a certain autonomy in administrative matters. The faculty vote was to show the administration that there was a problem with the Pence choice. The administration chose to ignore this.  As I said above, the administration may get away with this, or some heads may roll.  Think of this as like a Congressional resolution censuring the US president.

I didn't use the term owner; I used your terms and still you went on about nothing that was asked. 

I'm going to ask the question one final time: IF THE MAJORITY IN THIS SHARED GOVERNANCE VOTED AGAINST PENCE SPEAKING, THEN WHY DID HE SPEAK?

You now have 3 options:

Directly answer the question posed 

Don't answer the question posed

Type a lot about something else

Let's see how it goes Cotton.