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Does anyone else feel like Pluto (Not a Planet) is a great band name?

Cerise

First order of business: No more of this jammie nonsense! How’s that for an objective reader outcome?

In the meantime, I’ll try to smuggle in contraband reading material now and then.

Keep working on that tunnel.

And it’s ECM Paul C. ECM Reisser.

I sat on the faculty senate when I was doing my masters at said university. I remember how all of the indoctrination worked. Phil were you on there then? I am not sure any of the music faculty ever showed up…

On a completely different note, while looking for a video of Bobby and me bungee jumping I came across a video of me conducting and who should my fantastic piano player be? None other than Michael Lee. In the mirror I could see Aly, Ted Tyman, Mike Pryor, Heidi Arneson and Jeff Domansky.

The emergents would not have accepted me as a conductor. There is a reason I went on to College Student Development.

However, you’ve omitted some important points of institutional change that will aid in the development and communication of your vision for the future of Addison Road.

1) You can’t just form committees and taskforces to DO things. First, you need a taskforce to study the problem, call in experts, do research, and then make recommendations about what should actually be done, with suitable input from all stakeholders and community members. You’ve completely omitted the step where the taskforce reviews the practice of OTHER BLOGS that have similar missions. Your approach is entirely too insular.

2) It’s very suspicious indeed that you’ve appointed established community leaders in powerful positions where they can control the content submitted by others. Best practices research would indicate that it would be better to select relative outsiders (in the spirit of peer review) who have just enough knowledge about Addison Road to understand its background, but who will have clearer vision when it comes to evaluating successes and learning experiences (there will be NO failures).

3) You’ve completely omitted any missional objective with reference to diversity. In the modern post-modern world, that’s entirely unacceptable. You made a token reference to various learning styles, but failed to provide a mechanism for incorporating those who believe in the Submerging Church. You can’t just pretend that everyone wants to Emerge, or that Emerging is automatically the Right Thing To Do. There are a variety of missionological perspectives that must be honored in their own traditional contexts, without forcing everything into the mold of Emergence. Those of us who follow the teachings of the Convergent Church find this all to be something less than an Emergency.

But I digress.

4) Finally, your pejorative reference to native Americans was not missed (as if everyone doesn’t know what php means!), nor your reactionary, luddite approach to true quantitative evaluation.

Perhaps you should consider a career in something easier than higher education…. Have you thought of perhaps seeking a career in music?

I’ll be watching this blog very carefully.

Just kidding. I get it. I do. And it’s funny funny funny. School administration is the same the world ’round.

Greenville College is still trying to micromanage their decade-long mission of “Servant Leadership” within their staff and students. Guess which student reacted the WORST to it? [raises hand]

Cerise

And if anyone is making the T-shirts, count me in. I’m analytically non-strengthed, so this is perfect.