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Communication should be top priority
University Chronicle
EDITORIAL BOARD
The issue: Some faculty members tried to pass a vote of no confidence against SCSU administrators.
What we think: Administration and faculty members need to engage in open communication to ensure the quality of education does not falter because of friction.
Members of a faculty association called an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss whether or not they would pass a vote of no confidence against the SCSU administrators. The vote did not pass.
The heart of the matter is not that the vote did not pass. What matters most is the fact that members of the SCSU faculty were trying to pass a vote of no confidence for the administrators � the people who run SCSU.
What does it mean when the faculty of the university and the administrators have friction so big that one group has no confidence in the job the other group is doing? It could potentially mean that the friction leads to a falter in the education at SCSU.
In the long run, the people who are most impacted by the friction in the university are the ones that point to the purpose of the university � the students.
Students, for the most part, do not have day-to-day contact with administrators. Instead, their day-to-day interactions is with the faculty. The faculty appear to run the university for students. Without them, students would have no classes to attend, no organizations to join, no advisers to help with graduation. When the people who help students in their everyday workings at the university are at odds with the administration, the quality of education and advise suffers.
Rather than continuing with friction, what the administration and faculty need to do is work toward open communication. A step in the right direction was taken at Tuesday's meeting. Instead of voting no confidence, the members of the faculty organization voted to work with the administrators to solve their problems.
Administrators and faculty members need to realize that the university is not about them � it is about the students. They need to put their own differences aside and work together for the benefit of the students.
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