Dr. Jackson updates community in recent email
Will Dr. Jackson be the next Mark Zuckerberg?
Today, the day before the spring Town Hall meeting, Dr. Jackson sent out an email to the RPI community, addressing most of the recent hot button issues, such as faculty hiring, student life, presidential salary, and financial aid (to name a few.)
Of note: she and the cabinet will be taking salary reductions:
The President and the Cabinet will take 5 percent and 2.5 percent salary
reductions, respectively, or make equivalent givebacks, to Rensselaer in
the 2010 fiscal year. Those funds will be contributed to a student
scholarship fund.
The email does not answer some of the specifics that people have been abuzz about, but this is a great first step towards answering them. I welcome this email with open arms in an attempt to gain insight as to why things have fallen the way they have. I would like to thank Dr. Jackson and the administration for doing this and hope that such transparency is expanded further and will continue into the future.
To address the way the institute is dealing with the current economic situation, RPI’s Division of Strategic Communications and External Relations has established a new website, part of which seems to have pages that take information available elsewhere and combine it onto one place. It seems that the “Your Questions” part of the site doesn’t really ask my questions, (that’s what the town hall is for right?) more like questions that they think I might have. I was hoping for at least a web form to submit a question, but maybe that’s for when the site goes web 2.0 with some social networking features.
What do you think of the email? Let us know in the comments!
The full text of the email is below.
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