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|Application number
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|Mar 6, 2007
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|Jun 4, 2003
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|Jun 4, 2003
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|Byron G. Muhs
|Original Assignee
|Metso Paper, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (34), Non-Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (17), Classifications (14), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
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The present invention relates to papermaking machine elements which are loaded to establish a pressure profile in general and in particular to systems for measuring the pressure profile generated by the element.
In any part of a papermaking machine or paper processing machine, such as a press or calender, where a paper web is passed through a nip formed between two rolls or between a shoe and a backing roll, it is desirable to control the nip pressure in the cross machine direction, and the nip pressure profile in the machine direction. Typically it is desirable to make the nip pressure as uniform as possible in the cross machine direction so that the entire web is uniformly treated. The pressure profile in the machine direction is tailored to achieve optimal results in calendaring or dewatering, or to minimize wear. A uniform nip loading can be accomplished by employing a crowned roll; however, for a given amount of crown, only a single uniform nip loading can be achieved. Oftentimes, as the grade of paper or type of paper changes it is desirable to change the nip loading. Further, as the width of papermaking machines has been increased to as much as ten meters it has become more difficult to achieve uniform loading along the entire cross machine direction length of the nip using simple crowned rolls.
The solution is to use a deflection-compensated roll, sometimes also referred to as a crown control roll. In a deflection-compensated roll, one or more hydraulic pistons is arranged in the cross machine direction within a roll shell. The hydraulic pistons are mounted to a roll support beam. The hydraulic pistons form hydraulic loading devices which directly support the shell by applying load to the inside surface of the roll shell. Deflection-compensated rolls are typically employed in the pressing section of a papermaking machine, or in the rolls of a calender or supercalender. Deflection-compensated rolls require a high capital investment and, to gain full benefit from the investment, it is desirable to control each deflection-compensated roll as accurately as possible.
Deflection-compensated rolls can be divided into rolls with a mobile shell and rolls with a fixed shell. Both types of deflection-compensated roll have a nonrotating support beam about which the roll shell is mounted. The shell may be fixed with respect to the support beam by end bearings which may be roller bearings or hydraulic slide bearings. To close the nip between a deflection-compensated roll which is fixed with respect to a support beam, the entire support beam is moved onto loading arms to close the nip. Alternatively, the roll shell may be radially movable on the support beam with respect to the axis of the shell in the plane defined by the nip and the roll axis so that the nip may be opened and closed by such radial movement.
To determine the cross machine nip load, in a deflection-compensated roll where the roll shell is fixed with respect to the support beam, the total loading of the deflection-compensated roll may be determined by determining the loading of the support beam. Alternatively, or in addition, the loading applied to the roll shell by loads in the end bearings, and in the individual cross machine direction loading devices, can be determined, typically by measuring the hydraulic pressure supplied to the loading devices and end bearings, and calculating load based on the cross-sectional area of the pistons or bearings. Where the roll shell is mounted for radial motion, the nip loads can be determined from the total hydraulic loading of the cross machine direction loading devices.
The pressure in a nip between two rolls has been measured directly by pressure sensors which are placed in the nip as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,953,230, or by a process known as NipScan® developed by Albany International Corp. of Albany, N.Y. Determining nip pressure or roll bearing loads by any of the foregoing techniques is important because paper quality can depend on nip uniformity. In addition, excess nip loading can damage elastic roll covers which are used to provide a so-called "soft nip". What is needed is a better technique and system for characterizing the nip load formed between two rolls, or between a shoe and a backing roll.
The nip characterization system of this invention employs sensors which detect the load applied by a series of hydraulic loading devices arrayed in the cross machine direction between a roll shell and a support beam in a deflection-compensated roll, and sensors which, in a fixed shell roll, detect the bearing loads, and the loads in loading arms which support the roll support beam. In a movable shell roll, sensors which detect the loading imposed on a support beam are used. In addition to the load measuring sensors, an array of cross machine direction pressure sensors are placed between the deflection-compensated roll and a backing element. More than sufficient information to completely characterize the nip is provided to a nip analysis system which has as inputs the pressure applied to the nip by the hydraulic loading devices, loads applied at the end bearings or the loads applied to the roll support beam; and, in addition, the nip loads measured with pressure sensors. The redundant information can be used to better characterize the nip loading and the cause of any irregularities in the nip loading.
It is a feature of the present invention to provide at least two measurements which are diagnostic of the nip loading between a deflection-compensated roll and a backing roll.
It is another feature of the present invention to provide a technique for better assessing the cross machine direction nip loading profile, and the source and possible solution to any undesirable variation in nip loading.
Further objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Referring more particularly to
A computer 36, data acquisition devices, or other type of controller, with a display system 37 is used to monitor the loads applied by the loading arms 34 to the support beam 28 and the loads applied to the roll shell 22. The hydraulic pressure measurements PT are taken from pressure lines 38 which communicate with the roll end slide bearings 24. Hydraulic measurements are taken from pressure lines 40 which communicate with each of the plurality of hydraulic loading devices 30, and hydraulic measurements are taken from pressure lines 41 which communicate with each of the loading arms 34. U.S. Patent publication No. 2002/0011116A1, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes in more detail how pressure measurements with respect to internal hydraulic elements can be made external to a deflection-compensated roll. In addition to the foregoing loading data, the computer 36 is simultaneously connected to a system 44 which directly measures the cross machine direction nip profile. This system may be a series of piezoelectric pressure sensors 42 which are arrayed in the cross machine direction. Further, if the backing roll 32 is a vacuum roll, the vacuum level 46 can also be measured through a sensor line 48 which transmits vacuum levels to the computer 36. If the vacuum roll has one or more suction glands the vacuum level from each suction gland can be measured as a separate input to the computer 36.
If a self-loading deflection-compensated roll is employed, pressure data can be taken from the hydraulic loading devices and from load cells, air rides, or strain gauges positioned to determine the loading on the associated load support beam. If the backing roll 32 is a vacuum roll, the vacuum can be measured and changes in the amount of vacuum can also be correlated with measured nip loads.
The benefit of combining actual nip loading data with applied nip pressure data is better characterization of a deflection-compensated roll, both for diagnosing problems and for improving the control of the nip pressure in the cross machine direction.
As illustrated in
It should be understood that the techniques for measuring actual nip pressure are not limited to the use of piezoelectric sensors—other types of sensors or sensor systems, for example fiber-optic sensors, could be used. The NipScan® system from Albany International could also be used to determine nip pressure directly.
It is understood that the invention is not limited to the particular construction and arrangement of parts herein illustrated and described, but embraces all such modified forms thereof as come within the scope of the following claims.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Aug 4, 2003
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This report tells the story of 19 year-old SL (name withheld) and her process of emotion healing during her time at the confidential CTC shelter. SL does not remember where exactly she comes from in Cambodia, but she lived in Thailand for a year and worked in a beverage shop in Pailin town. During that time, she worked very hard and helped even with the heavy lifting, though all was well. One time, however, she went to a music concert and drank beer with her friends and got drunk.
On her way home, someone on a motto abducted and drugged her. She woke at 3am with no clothes on and did not remember anything.
She went back to work and could not get up for a few days, because she was so sick and badly drugged. She got pregnant from the rape and she discovered this harrowing news almost 5 months after the incident. SL was then sent to social affairs and eventually referred to our CTC program.
When SL first arrived she was scared, hopeless and ashamed of herself for being raped and pregnant. On arrival the counselor met SL and began the process of building trust as part of integration into the program. SL attended formal counseling on a one to one basis twice a month and also attended the large and small group therapy meetings. The counselor continued to build trust in the one to one sessions before choosing what kind of approach she would take to help reduce SL's trauma. They began to use art therapy along with talk therapy, while SL built more confidence in group therapy.
As SL settled and relaxed the counselor recapped her progresses to show SL how she was developing psychologically. SL was not at all connected to the idea of the keeping baby in the first session, but after giving birth and through continued therapy, she has now started to connect to the baby and declared she intended to raise it herself. After the birth she stated,
"I have seen his face and want to keep my baby." For the moment, she has requested to stay in the shelter a bit longer until she feels ready to go out and support herself and her child.
The counselor reflects that SL is still in the shelter and seems to now notice others have problems also and feel empathy with the other survivors. Also she noted that SL was very sensitive and cried as soon as she was asked about the baby in the first session, but is now stronger and remains fully committed to looking after the child.
Her family had not contacted her up to the time she was raped. They have since left Pailin and SL still doesn't know where they have gone. When we met SL at the shelter she had a radiant smile and seemed very positive and hopeful. We would not have guessed what she had endured if we hadn't been told her background. Her child is beautiful and healthy and seems to have helped transform SL with the love she now feels for her one-month old baby.
Gender-based violence is prevalent throughout Cambodia. Widespread rape is a reality that many Cambodian women must confront and often without emotional, psychological or legal support. Our program, Counseling and Reintegration, executed by our local partner CWCC, serves to counsel and reintegrate survivors in addition to raising social awareness regarding such gender-based violence in order prevent further assaults.
The following story demonstrates the beneficial work this program can accomplish with your further support!
Nai Lee* aged 14 from Banteay Meanchey, often had to stay with her mother's cousin at the border area, because her mother worked as a laborer along the Cambodian-Thailand border. During one stay, a strange man Lee did not know sexually raped her. Although Lee did not tell her mother after the rape, Lee did tell a neighbor who soon after told her mother.
Hearing about the incident, Lee's mother skipped work and immediately took Lee to the police station to file out a complaint to pursue the rapist. Lee's case was then taken to Banteay Meanchey provincial police station for legal proceedings. Through interviews, the crime division was able to identify the suspect and later arrest the man.
Lee was referred by the crime division to stay at CWCC's safe shelter and receive program services. Although Lee received good medical care by the shelter staff including accommodation, meals and clothing, she suffered deep mental fear. Lee still hated men. She could not relax. She spoke in a very loud voice when meeting with the counselors and the shelter staff. She had arguments with other clients in the shelter as well.
Our team supported Lee through this difficult period and provided her with individual and group counseling sessions. She also underwent art therapy techniques such as drawing and painting. Lee was excited about such art therapy and ultimately reduced arguments with other clients, while our staff witnessed significant improvements in her mental health.
After this period of counseling, the CWCC's reintegration team met her to discuss her plan to return to her regular life based on her request to reunite with her family. Through family and community assessment, the CWCC's reintegration team supported Lee with a life start-up grant including sleeping and kitchen materials, groceries, and a stipend from funding provided by Lotus Outreach.
In return, Lee's mother stated: "I am happy for the quick actions by authorities and CWCC's support… my daughter's case has gone through the legal process and the perpetrator was arrested and is being prosecuted for his crime."
Since this statement, Lee's perpetrator has been sentenced to 7 years in jail and Lee was awarded financial compensation. In addition, CWCC's reintegration team has been conducting ongoing visits to see Lee's progress and to provide ongoing counseling and support as needed. Although Lee has not fully healed up till this point and still faces significant distress, this program has allowed Lee to make huge strides in her healing process and also in reintegrating her back into her regular life.
Support Lotus Outreach and our partner, CWCC, to help so many other girls like Lee that are in profound need of such important aid!
*Nai Lee's name has been changed to protect her identity
Gender-based violence is rampant throughout Cambodia. Women are expected to remain chaste until marriage and are generally held in lower regard than men. Widespread sex trafficking and rape present Cambodian women with a painful irony: in addition to the trauma of sexual assault and abuse, survivors are often blamed for what has happened to them. Ostracized and shouldering a burden of guilt for having shamed their families, many girls have no one to turn to.
Nana,* only 14 years old, is the youngest of five siblings. Her parents are landless farmers, seasonal laborers. Because of her family's station, she has never attended school. Chasing after whatever work they could find, Nana's parents took her and her siblings to areas near the Thai border.
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One night while Nana's Aunt and her siblings were away at a neighbor's house, a rapist broke into the home and assaulted Nana while she slept. Nana was too ashamed to tell her parents directly, but she was able to tell her friends, who told Nana's parents. Her mother reported it to the commune police, and it fortunately resulted in the arrest of the assailant!
Nana voluntarily stayed at CWCC's shelter to wait for her court case and receive services from CWCC. At the shelter, Nana met the counselors who provided her with counseling to reduce her stress and heal her trauma. At first she had a mental block on the memory and an overwhelming hatred of males. She was fearful, she talked to counselors and shelter staff with a loud voice and she was angry with other clients.
After receiving counseling for a full year, Nana worked with CWCC's reintegration staff to plan for her return home. The reintegration team conducted family tracing and assessments on 22ndJanuary 2014 before reintegrating her into her community.
On 24th January 2014, Nana was reintegrated back home with life start-up support. This included sleeping materials, kitchen utensils, and groceries.
The case of the perpetrator is still pending a verdict, but CWCC's legal aid staff have worked to ensure that the violent criminal is kept away from Nana and the village. In the last year 22 perpetrators of rape, domestic violence and human trafficking were arrested with encouragement and assistance from our legal prosecution staff. 4 have been convicted, and 18 cases are still pending.
Your support has helped make Nana's recovery, reintegration and justice possible. Thank you for donating to support Nana and other survivors like her.
*Nana's name has been changed to protect her identity.
Sieb, 25, is recently divorced from her abusive husband. Sieb's former husband has taken 2 of their 3 hectares of ancestral land and all their savings. He refuses to part with half, as is customary, or anything for that matter. They remain in a legal battle but with no land titles or documentation; it's not clear what the outcome will be.
Back in November 2012, Sieb took refuge at Lotus Outreach's shelter for survivors of rape, trafficking and domestic violence. While she stayed at the shelter for nearly six months, Sieb received sewing skills training and was offered a small business startup grant of $200 to help her get back on her feet.
Sieb's first venture was reselling produce. She bought sweet cakes made in Thailand but didn't account for the rainy season and perishable nature of the product and lost $40. Next, she bravely jumped into making dried fish but she cut off the fish heads which should have been included and which reduced the weight of the final product. She couldn't make a profit and suffered a further loss of $100.
Sieb's third venture is proving more successful and Lotus Outreach Field Director Glenn Fawcett recently visited Sieb at her home to find out more:
We arrived mid-afternoon to Sieb's home in Oo Ambaal on the edge of Sisophon town in the Western Cambodian Province bordering Thailand. We could hear that familiar sound, "rat-a-rat-a-rat-a", of a pedal driven sewing machine as we mounted the broad stairs of Sieb's stilted wooden home with a corrugated iron roof. Inside, Sieb was working on her garments next to her parents and the usual gaggle of nephews, nieces and sundry neighborhood kids surrounded them.
After Sieb's initial disappointments from her first two business ventures, it was clear that she would have to make absolutely certain that her next venture was a success. One day, as Sieb sat on her stoop watching life pass by her, she noticed a neighbor returning some garment piecework to a manager and told the neighbor that she could also do some of the sewing piecework for a lower price. The neighbor agreed and pretty soon Sieb was stitching shorts and shirts on piece rates. She's not very fast as of yet, but it's a start, and she works 6 hours on most days, which earns her about US$2 a day. This modest income makes a big difference to her and the family at the end of each month and with more practice she will doubtless get faster and generate more income.
Not surprisingly, Sieb says she isn't going to stop at that. She tells us, "I'm putting money away to start a small grocery store, which I will find more stimulating. It will increase my skill and capacity by having to keep accounts, a budget, and stock in and out."
Even after all she has endured, you can sense a strong confidence in Sieb, fifth of ten children, forced to leave school at sixth grade to look after her younger siblings, tend pigs, and manage other work while her parents labored wherever they could find work to keep food on the table for a family of 12.
Sieb's story is by no means unique; many Cambodian women face a similar reality after an abusive relationship. Sieb is tremendously brave to strive to improve family's circumstances after so much hardship. We are absolutely delighted she's making the best use of the opportunity provided to her through the Counseling and Reintegration program in establishing an income and standing on her own two feet.
On behalf of the hundreds of women served by the Counseling and Reintegration program, we thank you for your support and generosity!
In any country, not having a proper education creates a lot of added difficulties and risks for a person, and this holds especially true for women. It becomes more difficult to get a well-paying job, and in Cambodia it can even cause young girls to try to migrate to Thailand to find work.
Lotus Outreach designs its programs empower women economically and allow them to avoid risky behaviors like migrating to find work. Migrating puts young women at great risk of violent crimes, trafficking and rape.
For the many women who cannot avoid these perils, Lotus Outreach offers reconciliation through our Counseling and Reintegration program. Please consider donating— a week's counseling can be provided for only $10.00!
Mulika is one such woman who has benefitted from counseling and economic reintegration services provided through this program. Her name has been changed to protect her identity.
Now 16 years old, Mulika dropped out of school at a young age due to her family's extreme poverty. She travelled to Thailand by herself to find construction work, leaving her parents and her two siblings behind. She did manage to arrive and to find work in Thailand, but the danger for young Mulika was not over.
A Cambodian man who was Mulika's coworker at the construction site forcibly raped her, beat her, and sliced her face with a broken bottle. She was seriously wounded and was hospitalized for her injuries.
Her wounds required multiple surgical treatments, and so Mulika was transferred back to a Cambodian hospital in Banteay Meanchey, near the Thailand border. The incident traumatized Mulika, and her family incurred significant costs in obtaining the medical treatments she needed. Her sense of self-worth plummeted, and things were made worse when her Cambodian fiancé decided to separate from her.
Fortunately, Lotus Outreach's Counseling and Reintegration program was there to catch her as she fell. Mulika's parents sought help from our local partner, the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center, and placed Mulika in the center's residential care program.
Mulika began participating in group counseling sessions, learning to manage her depression and her anger. The anti-social behaviors which she exhibited when she joined the program lessened, and as she became more engaged in the therapy she was able to smile and make friends once again.
Counseling and Reintegration aims not just to help women reconcile their traumatic experiences, but also to prepare them for life and work beyond living in the crisis center. Mulika is attending literacy classes at the shelter, and she is learning the skills which her impoverished background had always denied her.
What's more, the center has helped Mulika to file charges against her attacker, a Cambodian man who at the time of this report was still at large. Prosecuting their assailants gives some reconciliation to the survivor, and successful prosecutions help keep other women safe from dangerous rapists and abusers.
Mulika still has a long way to go, and dealing with the experience of a violent rape and traumatic migration is not easy. She is beginning to feel better, and she is grateful that Counseling and Reintegration is there to give hope, even to the hopeless.
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Knut Hamsun, a staunchly anti-British nationalist, was his country's most beloved writer, best known for his modernist books Hunger (1890) and Growth of the Soul (1917), which gave Norway's literature worldwide stature. But with the shadow of Nazism quickly darkening Europe, Knut Hamsun and his wife Marie embrace Hitler-- who sees Hamsun's support as the surest way to win over the Norwegian people.
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Without truly knowing what he is getting into Knut Hamsun is attracted to the teachings of a certain man by the name of Adolf Hitler. Because the wife is the one truly devoted to the Fuehrer, Hamsun struggles between what she is trying to convince him is the true nature of Nazism and what he learns from other sources (not to mention from his encounter with Hitler himself, who wants Hamsun as a propaganda tool for the Nazi cause).
Obviously, the film is controversial. How much did Knut Hamsun actually know about the atrocities committed by the Nazis and how much was he lulled into it all by his wife?
The relationship between the arts and politics is made explicit and explored. How and why we chose and practise our ideologies is frightening and makes you wonder about your own convictions.
However, the film is so much more than this and is a definite must for anyone who likes to question themselves, society and the notion of history.
Knut Hamsun is one of the great writers of Western culture. He was born in 1859 in Norway, achieved a towering reputation as a novelist and poet, was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1920 and forever will have an asterisk by his name. The asterisk? Knut Hamsun* passionately supported the rise of Nazism, believed to the end that Hitler was a great man and supported the Nazi occupation of Norway.
Hamsun believed in agrarian values and hated modern industrial culture. He hated the British. He believed Germans and Norwegians were one people and that Norway would sit at the table next to Germany in bringing true values to the lives of all people. The movie starts in 1935 when Hamsun was 76. His marriage to Marie, a former actress 22 years younger, mother of their children, is almost poisonous yet interdependent. "You've made me ugly," she screams at him. "Yes, we've made each other ugly," he says contemptuously and turns away. Everything -- marriage, children, time -- revolve around his needs as a great writer and intellectual. For Hamsun, the rise of Hitler and Nazism promised an age of an orderly flowering of all he believed in. In brief, he swallowed what Hitler was saying, believing what he wanted to believe and unable to question his own certitude.Read more ›
The narrative begins in 1935, when Hamsun is already in his mid-70s. Winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature, lionized as Norway's greatest son, Hamsun is a study in purposeless alienation. He hasn't written a word in years, he's lost the respect of his jealous wife, his relationship with his children is distant, he's isolated himself from the public on his huge estate, and his growing deafness pushes him ever deeper into solitude. Consequently, Hamsun is a man who lives in a world of abstract ideas. He's lost contact with concrete reality--surely, by the way, one of the reasons for his writer's block.
All this makes him easy prey for the "idealistic" wave of National Socialism, which he quickly embraces and publicly supports. It's only after the war that Hamsun, charged with collaboration, comes to understand the great and fatal divide between ideals and reality. A New European Order sounds good on paper, perhaps. But the reality of that New Order--a reality which Hamsun simply ignored for too long--was destruction, death camps, and genocide.
Troell's film is a sensitive examination of the artistic and moral decline and fall of a great man. Max von Sydow's portrayal of the aged lion is, in my view, his very best performance. Von Sydow resists the temptation to reduce Hamsun to either villain or victim, instead rendering him as a complex nexus of irascibility and tenderness, canniness and bewilderment, leonine strength and aged fragility, courage and timidity. It's an utterly successful performance.
Highly recommended.
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U. of Virginia's board will meet Tuesday to reconsider president's ouster, but combative statement by board chair suggests outcome is uncertain.
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The highly publicized student protests this past fall often challenged the notion of shared governance as it has been historically practiced. Student demands at institutions public and private, large and small, have sought to substitute the judgment of students for that of the faculty in areas such as the curriculum, hiring, tenure, promotion and the grading system.
Many students understandably are not aware either of how decisions are made on their campus or who is responsible for which aspects of their institution. As a result, a number of presidents have responded to student demands by reaffirming the importance of shared governance, approaching the protests as offering opportunities for (with apologies for the cliché) teachable moments. Some have noted that student protests have long had a place in higher education. And many of course have supported such goals as fostering greater diversity and seeking to end both systemic racism and the kinds of microaggressions that can cause pain to students.
The events in recent weeks at Mount St. Mary's University and Suffolk University are a different matter. The Mount's president and board chair and the actions of the Suffolk board have abruptly shattered notions of shared governance, to the detriment of their campuses. By ignoring best practices, they have also brought to their institutions a firestorm of highly critical publicity.
Principles of Shared Governance
Although institutional history, culture and mission all affect the details on each campus of how shared governance is implemented, most colleges and universities have generally embraced the notion of shared governance as defined in the 1966 Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities. According to the statement, formulated by the American Association of University Professors, the American Council on Education and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the Board of Trustees -- ideally in partnership with the president -- is entrusted with the long-term health of the institution, its mission, its policies and its finances. The board is also responsible for hiring, evaluating and firing the president.
Effective boards, however, focus on strategy, not tactics, and they delegate to the president the operation of the institution. The president then delegates to the faculty primary responsibility for the educational program, most notably the curriculum, academic standards and the hiring, retention and promotion of the faculty. For their part, students have no formal role in governance on most campuses, although they may serve as representatives to trustee committees and ex officio without a vote on boards of trustees, as well as participate fully in campus committees and planning processes.
Student protesters have often mistakenly assumed that their president is responsible for everything that happens on their campuses, failing to understand that new required courses, new programs in areas such as Black Studies and Latino/a Studies, and the hiring of significantly increased numbers of faculty of color are all matters that require faculty action.
For example, protesters at Oberlin College identified specific employees they wanted fired and faculty members they wanted to receive tenure. They sought to oversee a revision of the grading process. They argued that since students in the conservatory studying classical music were not required to take courses in jazz, jazz students "should not be forced to take courses rooted in whiteness." In response, Oberlin President Marvin Krislov sought to educate the campus about how decisions are made at Oberlin, explaining that he would "not respond directly to any document that explicitly rejects the notion of collaborative engagement. Many of [the document's] demands contravene principles of shared governance."
Student protesters at Amherst College had even greater expectations of President Biddy Martin when they demanded that she apologize "to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism" and racism and discrimination against a wide array of groups.
While acknowledging the pain that many students experienced as a result of systemic racism, and supporting both the right of students to protest and their goals, Martin, like Krislov, reaffirmed the importance of shared governance: "The formulation of these demands assumed more authority and control than a president has or should have. The forms of distributed authority and shared governance that are integral to our educational institutions require consultation and thoughtful collaboration."
Unfortunately, and in marked contrast, the president at Mount St. Mary's and his board chair and the board chair and other trustees at Suffolk were either ignorant about or chose to ignore the basic principles of shared governance -- including collaboration, consultation and distributed authority. Although circumstances continue to evolve at these institutions, what has happened to date provides some important lessons for other colleges and universities.
Mount St. Mary's: Violating Best Practices
The actions of President Simon Newman have been breathtaking in their disregard not only for shared governance but also for the following central tenets of academic life:
When confronted with faculty opposition to his plan to weed out students in an effort to improve the university's retention numbers, a key factor in its ranking in U.S. News & World Report and elsewhere, Newman violated every one of those principles.
The process began when, after less than a year in office, Newman became the poster child for ignoring the best practices of shared governance, for violent language and for disregarding that part of the institution's Catholic mission that values respecting "the dignity of other persons." As the Mount's student newspaper, The Mountain Echo, reported, Newman responded to the several faculty members who questioned his approach to student retention by telling them, "This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can't. You just have to drown the bunnies … put a Glock to their heads."
But as dismaying as Newman's plan and language were, his subsequent actions, supported by his board chair, were as egregious. He relieved the provost, who had served as chief academic officer at the Mount since 2007, of his administrative responsibilities, reportedly because the provost raised questions about Newman's retention plan. Newman then immediately appointed a new interim provost from outside the institution, without a search committee and apparently without any consultation with the faculty.
Soon after, Newman fired a tenured faculty member who had disagreed with him. Faculty members report that Newman took this action unilaterally, without any formal process. He next fired a professor who was head of the pre-law program and faculty adviser to the newspaper, also without any formal process (even though this faculty member had previously been a trustee). The precipitating issue was that the paper reported Newman's retention plan and his statement about the students as bunnies who needed to be drowned and shot.
Newman's actions run counter to the Mount's Catholic mission. His plan to dismiss at-risk students directly contradicts the university's stated learning commitment "to supporting the academic development of all students within our campus community, regardless of disability or academic challenge, by creating a purposeful, learner-centered environment that inspires academic discovery."
Most recently, in a letter to parents, Newman violated the principle that all personnel matters should be confidential when he made the unsubstantiated accusations that the terminated faculty members had violated the institution's code of ethics and had conducted themselves in ways warranting their being fired.
These latest episodes are sadly not the first in which Newman, who came to his position from outside the academy, showed disdain for his colleagues, for the institution's mission and for its students. Earlier, he reportedly referred to some students as "Catholic jihadis" and told some alumni, "Twenty-five percent of our students are dumb and lazy and I'd like to get rid of them."
In such circumstances, one would hope that the board would intervene. Sadly, the chair, John E. Coyne III, instead in a written statement joined the president in demonizing faculty and alumni critical of the president, going so far as to suggest they were engaged in a conspiracy to "undermine and ultimately cause the exit of President Newman."
In another statement, after offering his own disclaimer that he could not discuss personnel matters, Coyne accused the newspaper's former adviser of having "manipulated the student journalists into portraying the retention program negatively," according to The New York Times. He further criticized the students for "the damage you will render to this university and to its brand," called them "quite frankly irresponsible," and claimed they violated the college's code of conduct.
At this writing, the university has reinstated the two fired professors. The faculty has voted 87-3 to ask the president to resign, while many students are backing him. The board continues to support him.
Suffolk University: Inappropriate Oversight
Before coming to Suffolk University as president, Margaret McKenna had already had a distinguished career, including 22 years as the president of Lesley University and, more recently, four years as the head of the Walmart Foundation. Nevertheless, Suffolk's board sought her resignation only seven months into her presidency. Reportedly, and in violation of best practices, she had not been formally evaluated and the board had not met formally and with her knowledge to consider and debate such an action. (It is interesting to note that McKenna is the fifth president, including two interims, at Suffolk in five years and that one of her predecessors was removed abruptly and without explanation.)
Board members were also already courting former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to replace McKenna, even though McKenna had not resigned and there had been no formal search or consultation with others on the campus. In the face of the negative publicity, Coakley eventually said she would not be a candidate.
The Suffolk board clearly had not learned the lessons from the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors' abortive effort in 2012 to remove President Teresa Sullivan in her second year. The outcry from administrators, faculty members, students, alumni, public officials and former board members led to a reversal of that decision. Sullivan is still in office.
And, in fact, many Suffolk students, faculty and staff members, and alumni were outraged about the effort to unseat McKenna and rallied in her support. The faculty immediately voted confidence in her, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh publicly endorsed her leadership, admonishing the board for playing the situation out in the press. Walsh also said that his message to the board was "to sit down and have a conversation and figure this out, work this out."
Evidence suggests that the Suffolk chair and board members have ignored other best practices of shared governance. They have reportedly inserted themselves in an array of operational matters at the institution. In fact, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges made it clear in its April 2014 reaccreditation report of Suffolk that the board needed to stop micromanaging, to embrace best practices of governance and to move to a "more appropriate oversight and advisory role."
NEACS also made it clear that at Suffolk's next review in fall 2017, "we seek to be assured that clear lines of authority, responsibilities and relationships among the board, the administration and faculty have been established to ensure an effective governance structure." The report went on to cite NEACS governance standards, most notably that "the board delegates to the chief executive officer and, as appropriate, to others the requisite authority and autonomy to manage the institution compatible with the board's intentions and the institutional mission." Trustees rebuked McKenna, for instance, for hiring eight people, including a chief of staff and an assistant chief of staff, without board approval -- actions that on most campuses would have been considered operational matters that did not rise to the level of board involvement.
McKenna herself, during the interview process, made it clear that she expected the board to delegate university operations to her. The Boston Globe reported that she said she told the trustees, "You hire me, you give me the keys. I'll report to you. You'll never be surprised. … You have got to trust me to make the right decisions."
Suffolk trustees also violated at least two other central tenets of higher education: the standard policy that all personnel matters are confidential and the expectation that trustees do not have conflicts of interest. In recent weeks, In recent weeks, they openly criticized McKenna for for having an "abrasive manner" and making what they said were unauthorized expenditures, charges that she has challenged. They also appear to have sanctioned conflicts of interest. For example, in 2008, they put George Regan on the board even though his PR firm had an annual contract with Suffolk dating back to the last 1980s. In the face of adverse publicity, he withdrew from the board.
Nevertheless, Regan continued to exert a good deal of influence. According to the Boston Business Journal, Regan "personally recommended the appointment of at least seven of Suffolk's 28 board members," a number of which were clients or former clients. And despite the contract with his firm, one of Regan's employees also serves on the board.
Walsh got what he wanted. The board and McKenna have come to an agreement. The board chair will resign, effective this May, and the president has announced that she will step down before the 2017-18 academic year. Although the board plans to begin a national search for its next president in the fall and although McKenna has been clear that she will not be a candidate, the campus community hopes to retain her beyond that date. She has ended the contract with Regan's firm.
Lessons to be Learned
In the midst of these governance crises, one can find some bright spots. Both campus communities have been clear about, and stood up for, the values that undergird higher education at its best. But most of all, Margaret McKenna has unhesitatingly put the welfare of the institution she leads ahead of her own interests. She also has prevailed in her insistence that the Suffolk board adopt the best practices of shared governance.
As she put it, "There were two principles for me that were critical to any agreement. First, that there be significant and lasting change in the governance policies and practices of the university. Second, any transition would come only after these policies were in place, and after a thorough and inclusive search was undertaken in a time frame that guaranteed no need for interim leadership. This ensures stability for the institution." The Suffolk board has promised to develop and adopt new bylaws by May.
Today, when institutions are confronting economic pressures, changing demographics and growing public skepticism about whether higher education is worth its cost, collaboration among the faculty, administration and board is more essential than ever. Student success is dependent on a dedicated faculty that teaches well and creates an effective educational program. Institutional sustainability requires an administration that operates the institution responsibly and not only supports but also actively advances excellent teaching and learning. And when institutions must make cuts, reallocate resources or even modify their missions, those decisions benefit from the perspective of the faculty and staff as well as the administration. Boards, who need to be committed to the health and integrity of their institution in all its aspects, therefore need to appreciate these dynamics and foster that collaboration.
We can only hope that Mount St. Mary's and Suffolk survive their current fraught circumstances and serve as cautionary tales that encourage other institutions to embrace effective shared governance.
Susan Resneck Pierce is president emerita of the University of Puget Sound, president of SRP Consulting and author of Governance Reconsidered and On Being Presidential, both published by Jossey-Bass.
The long-simmering tensions related to race, ethnicity, inclusion and diversity in higher education have reached the boiling point nationally. The headlines regarding protests and demands, not only by students but also by faculty and staff members, at Claremont McKenna College, Ithaca College, the University of Missouri, Yale University and elsewhere have put such issues firmly on the agendas of boards of trustees everywhere, if they were not there already.
And those recent controversies probably have added a sense of urgency to the conversations. While some boards have been giving these matters some attention for some time, we have now reached a tipping point where all boards must step up to partner in leadership with the president.
Regardless of trustees' personal or political views on affirmative action and other policies, boards have an important role to play in their fiduciary as well as strategic roles with respect to race and inclusion at their institutions and within the state systems that they govern. The following are some specific steps that boards should consider. They should:
Ask for numbers and climate data. Boards should request meaningful data related to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic diversity; discuss the data and trends over the past three to five years; and understand the implications of what they learn.
Beyond the data on enrollment, retention and graduation rates by race and ethnicity, Pell eligibility, and gender, boards should ask for more granular data to identify meaningful trends. In what degree programs are students of different races and ethnicities enrolling? How well are different demographics of students progressing across these various degree programs?
For instance, are white students succeeding in STEM at different rates than minority students? Does a higher percentage of minority students leave after junior year as compared to other types of students? Or do those students not return as sophomores at different rates than majority students? What about admissions and yield patterns by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status?
Another type of data to collect relates to campus climate, which differs from asking for information that the institution already has. The methodologies often include surveys, focus groups and interviews. Climate studies may be a significant undertaking, yet they can yield keen insights because they allow personal stories to emerge. They help leaders understand the actual experience of students, faculty and staff in ways that numbers alone cannot.
Ensure a comprehensive diversity plan. In addition to the need to understand current and emerging issues, boards should ensure that the institution has an intentional plan to encourage campus diversity and equity for students, faculty and staff. Such questions include: Is the plan appropriate? Does it address the right elements? Is it consistent with other institutional goals and priorities, such as those outlined in the strategic plan? Are the milestones and metrics sensible? How realistic is the timeline? Does it clarify who is responsible for what?
Hold the president accountable. A primary responsibility of boards is to ensure progress on institutional milestones and goals, and they do this by holding the president accountable. In turn, the board should be assured that the president is holding his or her staff and the faculty accountable for progress, as well. By being explicit about their expectations, the board sends an important signal that it too cares about equity in a sustained and systematic manner.
That said, any new goals must work in concert with other presidential priorities. Unrealistic goals and a constantly changing set of priorities do little to advance the institution or provide an effective North Star for progress.
Support the president. When the institution faces difficult and challenging issues -- as those involving race, diversity and inclusivity frequently are -- a board will also often need to counsel and support the president. Many presidents have and will come under fire for lack of perceived progress on objectives related to diversity and equity. While some deserve the criticisms they receive, others are and have been working diligently on this agenda.
Given the sense of frustration on many campuses, the way forward is often unclear, with no road map. There are no simple, proven strategies or silver-bullet solutions. If progress on diversity were easy, higher education -- and the nation -- would be farther along on these lasting challenges.
Acknowledge complexity. Change in the academy can be difficult and seem slow, much to the frustration of some trustees. The complex and often contentious issues of diversity and inclusion are adaptive challenges, not technical problems with quick fixes or clear answers. In fact, treating these issues as technical problems in order to apply a tried solution may only exacerbate them.
Instead, boards must work with the president, staff, faculty and students to examine the issues, acknowledge the complexity of views of multiple stakeholders, think critically about them, define what can be done and take steps forward -- in some cases boldly, and in others more incrementally.
Make sure a campus protest plan is in place. Headline-grabbing protests have occurred at a handful of campuses and are likely to unfold at others. It is impossible to say which institutions might face significant protests. Boards should help ensure that their campuses are prepared for possible protests and know their role if such protests emerge. Intentional conversations with campus leaders can help articulate a strategy and minimize any risks to people, property and reputations.
Develop a media strategy specifically for the board. An effective approach includes clarifying questions with the board such as: Who speaks for the board? Who crafts the talking points? What do rank-and-file board members say or not say if they are approached by the media?
Any communication strategies also need to attend to social media. How are the institution and the board monitoring it? What are the means of communication that the board should pursue or try to minimize? What are the priority outlets where the board and institution should focus their attention? How agile can such media strategies be if the platforms shift, from, say, Twitter to Instagram?
Discuss lessons learned from other industries, fields or sectors. Many trustees are highly effective leaders in their own industries and fields. They may have lessons and insights to share from outside of higher education that can help campus leaders.
For instance, many corporations and nonprofit organizations have made tremendous strides related to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Others may have lessons to share from failed efforts that can also be illuminating. Boards should not shy away from serving as counselors when they have insights to share.
At the same time, savvy boards know that not all ideas from corporate or other settings transfer smoothly into higher education. Discovering what applies well or not can only happen through a candid dialogue between the board and the administration.
Look in the mirror. Most boards themselves have a lot of work to do regarding their own diversity. According to the most recent survey of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the racial and ethnic diversity of boards has not increased significantly over many years. Thus, boards should consider the ways in which issues of diversity, inclusion, voice, power and perspective play out in their own boardrooms.
Key questions to ask include: How diverse is the board? To what extent does it mirror the campus or larger community? What are the experiences of minority board members? Do they feel their voices matter consistently? How well has the board retained minority members? Do they hold positions of board leadership?
Such conversations can be difficult to frame and hold, much like what is occurring on college campuses -- yet they are essential for the board to have. People on the campus must know the board is as serious about addressing such issues within itself as it is within the institution.
Build the campus culture by design, not default. Values matter greatly in the academy. In their dialogues with key stakeholders, boards should always think about the campus culture they want to build and the values they hold most dear and want to perpetuate. Those values should be pervasive throughout the campus -- so embedded in the culture (part of the ethos of the place) that they define all interactions and are defended at all costs. Boards should spend time learning how students experience the climate and culture, what shapes the student experience, and whether that differs across diverse groups and individuals.
Listen to students, faculty and staff. Trustees often are most comfortable in a problem-solving mode. But what may better serve their institutions is simply to be able to listen and empathize with students, withholding immediate judgment. Boards must remember that the heart of the matter is about students, their experience and their success. Moving too fast to solutions without understanding the nuance of the issues may provide a short-term sense of progress but create more significant challenges in the future. Building bridges between the board and students and other groups on the campus may be more important now than it has been in the last decade.
In sum, the challenges of race/ethnicity and equity are longstanding in the academy. Ten years ago, the American Council on Education released a report aimed at new presidents about leadership strategies for campus diversity, Leadership Strategies for Advancing Campus Diversity. The insights still resonate today, because unfortunately the challenges remain even if the stakes are higher now. In addition to the work of administrators, faculty and staff, board members have the potential to add value in creating a campus culture that is truly open, welcoming, respectful, diverse and inclusive.
Peter Eckel is a senior fellow and the director of leadership programs at the University of Pennsylvania's Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy. Cathy Trower is president of Trower & Trower Inc., a board governance consulting firm.
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