With more changes in administration and many questions being raised, forthcoming actions from the university become vital.
When the Ball State University community is not informed about what is happening within the university, rumors start. And whether they turn out to be true or not, rumors can still be detrimental.
In recent weeks, the university began searching for someone to fill the recently created position of Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management. At the same time, Larry Waters, dean of Admissions and Enrollment Services, was placed on paid leave.
Tom Taylor, vice president for enrollment, marketing, and communications, said he believes Waters will be retiring soon, and two associate positions will be filling the void Waters' retirement will create. Waters, however, won't comment.
In order to gain and maintain trust, university administrators and officials must inform students, faculty, alumni and others of what is happening.
It's too early to tell if the changes are good or bad, but the secrecy surrounding the changes seems very suspicious from outside the doors of the school's administration.
When the university could have told everyone what was happening, it chose not to. Now, questions are being asked.
While the administration could have been forthcoming about the possible impending retirement and creation of a new position, they chose to keep students and everyone else uninformed.
One e-mail would have helped to make things a little less uneasy. The university simply had to tell the community who could be leaving and what it is doing to fill the opening, if there is a change.
Changes can be accepted, but only if they are not cloaked in secrecy.
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