(03-28-2020 08:22 PM)JMUNation Wrote:  Some of you act like the JMU way is a bad thing. It interesting to me that JMU is among the most popular schools in Virginia yet some of you don’t care for the JMU way.

I am incredibly proud to be a JMU grad. I love everything that is JMU. I struggle to understand why some of you are so critical of JMU. I have traveled to a lot of college campuses through the years. Many of them are really nice yet I have yet to visit one that measures up to JMU. JMU is incredibly special and the administration that some of you love to criticize made the campus what it is today and what it has been over the last 20+ years.

I understand that we should always strive for more. I am all for making great even greater. When people criticize something that is in and of itself an amazing thing, I just scratch my head and think that some folks just can’t be satisfied.

JMU is not perfect my friends but it is in the neighborhood.

Thank you proving my point.

Your knee jerk reaction rushing to defend JMU’s modus operandi is exactly the kind of myopic/blinkered thinking that is the institutional immaturity I was pointing out, and that must be overcome for JMU to become even better than it already is. It’s not about being “satisfied”...it’s about challenging ourselves to be better. Hiring and promoting from within, or thinking that the “JMU way” is beyond reproach is silly talk.