Anyone who’s ever spent any time around trustees of institutions of higher learning knows what a royal pain in the butt professors are. Talk about your whiney losers! Just because they spend a few hours a week disseminating information in a classroom they think they’re entitled to help run the place. Really? Most of them haven’t been out of school since the age of three, and wouldn’t know a balance sheet from a blunderbuss.
So I say, in these hard times for mainline Protestant divinity schools, good for the trustees of the Episcopal Church’s General Theological Seminary! When eight of the 11 faculty members at that two-century-old pillar of Lower Manhattan declined to teach and discharge their other duties because they said they couldn’t work with their president-cum-dean, the Very Reverend Kurt Dunkle, the board accepted their “resignations.” Hah! They’ll never have to work with him again.
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