Author: Episcopal Cafe

“The students are anxious that they will graduate. Obviously staff are anxious about jobs and faculty are anxious about their positions. I think they’re a little over-anxious,” Ewing said. “The chair tried to assure them that we will be here. We think we see the money. Given all the things I’ve dealt with here, this not does feel as big a problem as several of the ones we have dealt with. Part of what makes a bigger problem is that nobody knows what the leadership will be and that makes everybody nervous — and I am not sure, either.”

Earlier in March members of the trustees’ Executive Committee had received projections of a shortfall in operating funds from a consultant retained in the connection with the search process. The projections were presented to the full board at this meeting and resulted in the decision to take immediate action.