Tagline: “Answers so smooth men turn to stare.”
Make sure to read the question and original answer at Ask a Commissioner.
Commission member Paul Mulner says:
You are correct that the a "primary" duty of the interim Board is to approve the new by-laws. However, their duties are not limited to this. The interim Board must govern the institution until the new (resized) Board is constituted in June. … If the [presidential search committee] is able to select a candidate before the new Board is installed in June, the interim Board could receive their recommendation on a candidate and vote to extend an offer to that candidate.
Temperance says:
Make no mistake about it: Erskine has a bona fide Board of Trustees; the only “interim” part of the board is the assurance Synod has given us that it will be resized come June. The interim Board will do whatever boards do, including hiring a new president if they get the chance. However, the question misses the entire point of what happened! It really couldn’t matter less whether the interim board or the resized board extends an offer to a new presidential candidate – either way, Synod is in direct control.
You know, more in control than before, when they appointed all the Trustees. Now, they can fire trustees too!
…as of course they should!
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