Atlanta’s Broadnax Handed Legal Victory, Vows To Stay
ATLANTA
Clark Atlanta University faculty and staff got two strong messages Monday in their battles with President Walter Broadnax, who they want fired.
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7423.shtml
June 13th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
If the University is growing more stable than it has been then he is doing the job that he was hired for. I don’t believe that he can do any worse than the former president who (in my opinion) took the institution down. So, I say give the man a chance. I want to see my great great grandchildren attend CAU.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I don’t understand why someone would want to stay some place where they are not wanted. AND Broadnax lies again–he loves to manipulate the turth (i.e., lie)–114 + 19 = 133, which is 55.18% of the faculty (n = 241), and not 47% as he is trying to say. Can he not do a simple calculation 114 faculty voted no confidence in him, and 19 of the faculty voted confidence in him–why do you want to stay? From what I can see of him, he has never heard of any HBCU until CAU gave him a $400,000 total package deal.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Broadnax modus operandi has been to manipulate the truth, lie, obfuscate, and confuse, which is another reason he is not wanted as a leader of CAU. Look at the figures for the faculty’s vote of no confidence, for example; 114 faculty voted no confidence, plus 19 voted confidence, and that equals 133 faculty members who voted by the deadline (we did have more to come in, but they were not counted since it was after the posted deadline). Records at that time showed that CAU had 241 faculty members, 133/241 = 55.18% of all faculty voted, and out of the number of faculty who voted (133), 85.7% voted no confidence. We think that is a clear representation of the voice of faculty. I am not suprised that Broadnax does not recognize or value the voice of faculty. Another reason we do not feel his leadership is compatible with the mission of the insitution. Why would anyone want to stay some place where they are not wanted? Defies logic.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Okay, according to whose figures have you used to make a conclusion that the institution is more stable–Broadnax’s or figures from the federal government and the actual facts from CAU? The point I tried to show with the example about how he manipulated the percentage or improtance of the vote of no confidence from faculty–you cannot rely on Braodnax to tell you the truth. We live the story and have to deliver the services to the students; we know what is there and what isn’t. We too are speaking out to help ensure that your children’s children can attend CAU Ron–we act to protect the integrity of the educational program at CAU. Walk in our shoes as faculty, know what you are supposed to deliver and know what you are unable to deliver because the administration’s priorities are not including the educational program. As a professional you could leave (easily get more money just about at any other instutuion), some have, but when you feel commited to the institution and its particular mission, and know that you can and have delivered a quality education, then I think you should speak out in an effort to protect the University’s future ability to deliver a quality education. The University needs appropriate leadership so that they can do what they were hired to do–be effective in the classroom. If anyone is offended we are sorry, but we really are speaking out on behalf of future generations of young minds who may want to attend CAU for a college degree.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Quoted from Ron K:
“I don’t believe that he can do any worse than the former president who (in my opinion) took the institution down.”
Ron,
Where did you get the idea that President Cole took the institution down? Since President Broadnax has begun his tenure, the first thing that CAU lost was its morale. We have lost over 100 full-time faculty members to Broadnax in the last 5 years and there are now almost the same amount of adjunct instructors to full-time faculty teaching CAU classrooms. The quality of education at CAU has pummeled to the degree that students no longer want to learn and those who want to learn often leave the institution after there first semester or first year. CAU longer has any facilities for academic assistance (Broadnax let the Center for Academic Achievement go) eventhough tuition has increased for the past 4 consecutive years. The academic quality at CAU is no longer worth its tuition. So as a student, I would suggest that you truly investigate whether Broadnax has improved the Institution and whether his leadership abilities are even in the same league as Dr. Cole’s.
And please remember, a leader is someone who can BUILD. Broadnax has only proven his ability to decapitate in order to proportion debt (which never actually existed) and has clearly proven his ability to exaggerate the facts. If the Institution has REALLY improved, why don’t students feel it? On what level has the Institution improved other than his own (in his and his administrations HUGE salary increases each year)?