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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