Hi Bill,

Yes I agree, the time is too short and we must use it most wisely.
Thanks

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:49 AM, William Drake
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> Hi Alex,
>
> While I understand your concern, attacking the staff and SIC to the rest of
> the board strikes me as a path to self-immolation.  We really need to strip
> out of the discussion any personalization of the differences and focus on
> questions of institutional design or there will be no way to engage them in
> a collaborative review and redesign of the charter.  This is not the time to
> be settling scores, methinks.
>
> Bill
>
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>
>> Just wondering...
>>
>> Could NCUC assist the Board improve its accountability, credibility,
>> and its public perception by rightfully raising our constituency's
>> concerns urgin the board to avoid 'seemingly staff/SIC besieged
>> Board'?  While we recognise and appreciate the great work by staff/SIC
>> on behalf and the direction of the Board, we are conscious that the
>> ultimate responsibility of decisions made lies squarely on Board
>> members.
>>
>> For this reason, we are urge the Board to note and keep record of
>> every staff/SIC member against whom repeated complaints of acting as
>> 'frolic of their own' are leveled against?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The SIC charter was 100% drafted internally by staff (presumably at
>>> Roberto's direction).
>>> There is not 1 word in the SIC charter that was contributed by NCUC or
>>> its
>>> members.
>>> We cannot pretend that the SIC charter was some kind of compromise that
>>> reached the middle ground of competing agendas.  It was the total
>>> displacement of the consensus charter with the staff/SIC written charter.
>>> I do not plan to belabor this point, unless we hear these ridiculous
>>> claims
>>> to the contrary as was done here.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Robin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>> Very good reply, Bill. I like the way you got tough with him on the
>>> “top-down” question.
>>> Incredible that this guy can rationalize his actions as “consultative”
>>> when
>>> NO efforts were EVER made by SIC to contact anyone in NCUC involved in
>>> developing our charter. And he still refuses to acknowledge that the
>>> enormous public comment response we got – on an obscure charter issue,
>>> for
>>> God’s sake – actually means something.
>>>
>>> --MM
>>>
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