Who said the blog had not informed the college faculty and staff whose lives are impacted profoundly by Richard Carpenter's frivilous decisions? Check out the comments from Texas, some was as late as 07/03/08 that Richard Carpenter, after he openly promised not to outsource IT at LSCS, because the previous colleges had different situations, has started his outsourcing plot:

http://richard-carpenter-watch.blogspot....

Who wants the best for CSN? I can tell you it's not the CSN administration. Read this blog posting from more than one year ago, from Professor Rosenthal,

The Wisdom of Voltaire's Candide: Why we must "Cultivate our Garden"

Quoted from the article, "CSN is our garden; we the now hopefully wiser Candide."

To see the entire article,

http://richard-carpenter-watch.blogspot....

Heart warming, encouraging, and definitely demonstration of leadership that you will never find from the CSN administration.

Considering the new teachers' training starting early August, this is very late in the game already. Worse is some people are offered jobs, but waiting on contract that can not be issued, not knowing if they should continue looking or not.

I can understand all of your frustration. I hope the freeze will really be melted soon. But as of this point, no, the freeze has not been melted.

Jim Rogers reminds me of a kid who kicks and screams to get what he wants. Delayed gratification has been a problem for today's parents to teach their children, but where did Jim Rogers learn this from? A televation station owner that is used to ordering employees around as a boss? When there is no employer-employee relationship, how about creating one called donor-donee so he can still order people around?

I am a CSN faculty member and Judy Stewart does not speak for me. In fact, she speaks against me and all faculty members I know at CSN. Mike Richards does not enjoy a wide support at CSN.