Most of you know by now that Dr. Ed Meadows of Lurleen B. Wallace Community College was selected yesterday by the Board of Trustees to be the next president of PJC and that he has accepted.
Those of you who attended or listened to the podcast of Dr. Meadows' Pensacola campus forum heard a strong endorsement of Dr. Meadows by our own Bobby Roberson who has worked with Dr. Meadows at another college. I have also talked with a PJC department head who worked with Dr. Meadows at that same college. The department head also had nothing but good things to say about Dr. Meadows.
As a past and current college president, Dr. Meadows has the experience to lead PJC. His six years of community college classroom experience and seven years as a chief academic officer allow him to understand fully what our job as faculty is. His leadership roles in many Alabama state-level educational endeavors and his role as a registered lobbyist shows his ability to be effective at the state level.
Dr. Meadows will be taking leadership of PJC at a difficult time with the looming budget crisis. He will also have key administrative positions to fill. He will have difficult choices to make. I would like to urge all faculty - no matter who your initial choice was for the presidency - to give Dr. Meadows your full support. If we are predisposed to believing that Dr. Meadows will take PJC great places, then our chance of going to those great places is more likely to happen. We all know about self-fulfilling prophecies.
I have invited Dr. Meadows to attend the PJCFA picnic on Wednesday, April 23 from 11:30am - 2:00pm. He has tentatively accepted and will confirm as soon as he knows his schedule better. I hope that all faculty will attend and meet our new president.
It's a new era!
3 comments:
Excellent!
Has he already relocated to Pensacola?
He has been on campus getting familiar with things from what I have heard.
I cannot imagine that he would have found a house yet. You must look look look to find the deal. But it's out there.
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