Moody Amphitheater
More Kaplan Support
RECEIVED Mon., May 8, 2006
Dear Editor,
You got it right with your endorsement of Allen Kaplan [Endorsements, May 5]. One of the biggest changes at ACC in the six years since I left the board is that the board and faculty are working together, leading to success in the 2003, 2004, and 2005 tax-cap and annexation elections (unlike the failed 1999 tax-cap election when the faculty was alienated).
Kaplan and retiring trustee John Worley were the leaders from the board side in healing the earlier rift, with the ACC/AFT faculty union leading from the faculty side. Our community is much better off as a result.
The discredited attacks on Allen by former ACC President Richard Fonte (repeated without evidence in a letter last week) [“Postmarks,” May 5] were testimony that Allen was seen as a leader in listening to the faculty and in holding the administration accountable, both of which were very unwelcome to Fonte.
That Allen's performance as a trustee is positive is proven by the fact that he is supported in this election by virtually all current and former faculty leaders, as well as most of the other (unfortunately few) of us citizens who pay continuing attention to ACC. Keep him on the job.
You got it right with your endorsement of Allen Kaplan [Endorsements, May 5]. One of the biggest changes at ACC in the six years since I left the board is that the board and faculty are working together, leading to success in the 2003, 2004, and 2005 tax-cap and annexation elections (unlike the failed 1999 tax-cap election when the faculty was alienated).
Kaplan and retiring trustee John Worley were the leaders from the board side in healing the earlier rift, with the ACC/AFT faculty union leading from the faculty side. Our community is much better off as a result.
The discredited attacks on Allen by former ACC President Richard Fonte (repeated without evidence in a letter last week) [“Postmarks,” May 5] were testimony that Allen was seen as a leader in listening to the faculty and in holding the administration accountable, both of which were very unwelcome to Fonte.
That Allen's performance as a trustee is positive is proven by the fact that he is supported in this election by virtually all current and former faculty leaders, as well as most of the other (unfortunately few) of us citizens who pay continuing attention to ACC. Keep him on the job.
Hunter Ellinger