This semester for the Griffon News has started off oddly so far. We had four stories in the first issue that dealt with high-level administration and director positions leaving or people who have come in to replace the ones who have left:
Vartabedian who is soon to replace president Scalon
Dean Martin Johnson leaving in June
Bracciano Who is replacing Dr. Euinger as registrar
Max Schlesigner who is leaving IMC
(That is on top of Dr. Shang, Stan Sweeny, Mark Linder, Jeff Wilson, and Brett King leaving last year.)
Now for the second issue we are going to have stories on Dr. Shove and vice president Olinger leaving this institution. That means we will have six stories on changes in the management of this school, which is highly abnormal given we are three weeks in to the semester.
Why all this change?
The talk right now is that this is normal. Some are leaving because of their age, better job opportunities (like Shove going to Saudi Arabia) or some want to move on from this institution. This is still not good to have all these changes occur with the last year or so because it hurts institutional knowledge (although it has been suggested that some is still retained because the administration assistants.)
The upside is the new staff may come in with new ideas that will help the school improve itself but that is just a hope and not a reality.
About this blog
- M_Fowler
- This blog is the exercise in journalistic blogging in the Advance Journalism class on the Missouri Western State University campus. It will focus on how the Griffon News handles its stories and provides a little more information that cannot run in print.
5 comments:
I like this. It will be interesting to see your opinions as the semester continues.
The Griffin News needs less words and more photos.
It will be interesting to see how the university will cope with all this change.
I would say it is like when a new U.S. President is elected most of the high positions are new people. More then likely that is what is happening here.
Now Missouri Western has someone else new. The position of Athletic Director has been filled by David Williams.
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