30 January 2007

Q.U. searches for new President

Six weeks after the Board of Trustees of Quincy University "excused" former president Sr. Margaret Feldner, the University has announced that a search committee has been formed to find a new president.

Of the seven members on the committee, only one is Franciscan.

The chair of the committee, Brian Belobradic, said that a "sense of urgency" is guiding the new proceedings and that the committee wants "to do it right." A six-week wait hardly seems to portray a sense of "urgency."

Whereas the University bylaws in the past required its president to be a Franciscan, in 2004 the Board of Trustees, after appointing Sr. Feldner to the post, altered the bylaws. Now the president need not be a Franciscan, nor a professed religious, which gives me fears that my beloved alma mater will soon join the ranks of many "Catholic" colleges; it fear it will soon become just another private school.

The Quincy Herald Whig has an article here.

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