This is difficult to say but it needs to be said. You have to get past the bitterness and pettiness you seem compelled to exhibit at our board meetings.

It’s destructive and counterproductive and only serves to further damage the reputation of our college. I understand that individually you have been wronged. But you are not individuals.

You are our board. You need to start functioning like one again. You need to collectively find a way to get beyond the anger and bitterness you feel and focus on what’s important: the college you were elected to serve. You need to figure out how to work with one another, how to talk to one another, hot to treat one another with the respect and dignity each of you deserves.

Whatever you do, please, do not have a repeat of the Feb. 19 board meeting ever again. Your public behavior diminished the college and demeaned us all.

-Bob Hazard

Assistant Professor, English