TellMeYouLoveMe said:
TinFoilHatPreacherBear said:
Her primary job for this decade is to avoid a scandal and remind people that BU has a woman running the show. Everything else is way down the list.
Having said that she seems like a great enough lady who is very capable.
She is a talented lady and a personable one at that.
But then I think, she reports to a board made up almost entirely of self-selected people that claim some mysterious but undocumented affinity to Baylor, few of whom have any experience in higher education and even fewer have the ability to give significant money....
The net conclusion is we're pretty much just treading water ...
It's not what people say that matters, it's what they don't say. And that board has never been more quiet.
just treading water? I'm sure there's some truth mixed with much bias behind your statement here, not sure where the bias is sourced, because I don't care about BU politics, well other than keeping the godless heathens out of leadership.
But honestly, the scandal wasn't that long ago, and imo BU is handling it about as well as large Christian based school could handle it. We're certainly doing better than treading water on that front. We're a "soft target" for the media, and disliked by Austin & Dallas, as well as many in the national media as well. Could we do more, I'm sure, but all in all Baylor is far better off from where they were. Sometimes you can't make progress on all fronts, so you tread water in some areas while progressing in others. That's where we're at as a school imo, fixing the processes that hurt us so bad and repairing the public image. On the latter they're doing a very good job, as for the former, I don't know what else we could be doing.
As for the endowment and business side, I'd say treading water is probably accurate enough.