A PJC faculty member (not Charlotte) joined a group of PJC career service, professional staff and administrators last night at dinner with Dr. Hafner. Here are the comments from the faculty member:
"Last night was a very enjoyable evening and I was glad to meet Dr. Hafner. He interracted well with all of us.
Overall impression: positive. At one point he asked what we were looking for in a President. I said that the faculty would like to see more support to achieve academic excellence. He seemed to be EXTREMELY supportive of this idea and went into detail about the importance of sabbaticals, spd projects for faculty, etc. even in times when other items must be cut from the budget. He spoke of his classroom experience and seemed sincerely supportive of faculty issues."
3 comments:
I was able to attend two of the open forums for both Dr. Hafner and Dr. Eliott (one each for the first two). At this point, I would highly recommend either Hafner or Eliott. Hafner may have the more effusive personality necessary for a college president. Please, let us choose one of these two academic types, who taught and enjoyed teaching. (By the way, the preference poll on eCorsair has been "stacked" by many voters from Alabama. Interpret that as you will.)
I think people from the Pensacola community may be listening to podcasts and voting at e-corsair. Interestingly enough Dr. Martin started in a one position and manages to hold his position. Likewise Ron Paul has been holding his ecorsair ground. Hang in there Ron Paul, you can do it.
Both Hafner and Elliott majored in English or communication arts. Some people may identify with them more than other candidates. You don't have to major in English though to be an academic type.
We are predisposed to candidates based on what we like or what we expect. I don't expect to change anyone's mind; and of course, it may be difficult for individuals to change my mind. A definite value of my or your opinion is that someone of the same opinion can take one of our opinions and say see she thinks so too. We should go this way.
The community does care who the next president of PJC is. Their input is valuable as well. Run up to those board members Pensacolians and give it too them.
Not a lot of people feel comfortable with blogging. So the opinions of people in this blog are definitely not the opinions (positive-negative) percentage wise of the population as a whole.
It's wonderful thing though. Step back. Faculty member is about to write something on the blog. If you want blow for blow commentary, here you have it (They did what? He wore what? He said what?)from the left and the right, liberals and conservatives--the most vocal people of course.
I recommend Dr. Meadows. (My background is business. And I am in three community gardening clubs.)
And I forgot to put my name on it before I clicked.
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