Thank you for the comment. I think that there is room to comment on leadership skill and it not be personal. If we can’t offer honest analysis of ourselves, should it be left to folks outside our communities?
Yeah, well the circumstances involved far, far more complexities than by Wilson’s actions alone, no matter his failings. Further, Wilson’s arrival was at the nadir of nationwide economic stress and constraining Fed tuition loan directives that directly harmed all HBCU finances. But you made no mention that Wilson stabilized the school’s financial conditions, made painful financial restructures, and initiated the recovery climb inherited by his successor.
Instead, you leveraged ambivalent commentary about lost glories and hopeful but questionable prospects for recovery. (The competitions by fat pocketed State schools is obvious to all private HBCUs.) Given Wilson’s departure is now 4 years past, I’ll repeat, your comments were a most unnecessary post-facto cheap shot stab to his back from a perhaps not so professional journalist.
The school took steps to self-assess its needs and future path, during both Wilson’s tenure and the current president’s tenure, and has taken substantial steps with improved direction aided by substantial high value donations. Had that been the sole focus of the article, then an assessment of that progress would have been lauded by most.
Instead, the article was pickled by old fashioned yellow journalism using 4 years departed Wilson as the foil for circumstances begun preceding Wilson’s near 5 years tenure (perhaps THAT might should have been the intended story). Indeed, from 2000 thru 2016, most private HBCUs experienced 10-15 years of continuous financial stresses and difficult leadership churns.
Whatever, your article was unbalanced, negative in overall tone, and perhaps will be seen by HBCU Leaders and Administrators as an example of what they too might one day expect after their respective tenures.
(The non-substantive platitudes of the additional commentor have little applicable value.)
I agree that there needs to be honest assessment both good, bad, and ugly. That is what separates those willing learn and those who think they are without criticism.
Backhanded compliment at best! No need to berate the past president. Some Black people do indeed know how to shit on one another.
Thank you for the comment. I think that there is room to comment on leadership skill and it not be personal. If we can’t offer honest analysis of ourselves, should it be left to folks outside our communities?
Yeah, well the circumstances involved far, far more complexities than by Wilson’s actions alone, no matter his failings. Further, Wilson’s arrival was at the nadir of nationwide economic stress and constraining Fed tuition loan directives that directly harmed all HBCU finances. But you made no mention that Wilson stabilized the school’s financial conditions, made painful financial restructures, and initiated the recovery climb inherited by his successor.
Instead, you leveraged ambivalent commentary about lost glories and hopeful but questionable prospects for recovery. (The competitions by fat pocketed State schools is obvious to all private HBCUs.) Given Wilson’s departure is now 4 years past, I’ll repeat, your comments were a most unnecessary post-facto cheap shot stab to his back from a perhaps not so professional journalist.
The school took steps to self-assess its needs and future path, during both Wilson’s tenure and the current president’s tenure, and has taken substantial steps with improved direction aided by substantial high value donations. Had that been the sole focus of the article, then an assessment of that progress would have been lauded by most.
Instead, the article was pickled by old fashioned yellow journalism using 4 years departed Wilson as the foil for circumstances begun preceding Wilson’s near 5 years tenure (perhaps THAT might should have been the intended story). Indeed, from 2000 thru 2016, most private HBCUs experienced 10-15 years of continuous financial stresses and difficult leadership churns.
Whatever, your article was unbalanced, negative in overall tone, and perhaps will be seen by HBCU Leaders and Administrators as an example of what they too might one day expect after their respective tenures.
(The non-substantive platitudes of the additional commentor have little applicable value.)
I agree that there needs to be honest assessment both good, bad, and ugly. That is what separates those willing learn and those who think they are without criticism.