In a lengthy article in the online publication The HawkEye, the chair of the IUP Journalism and Public Relations Department takes the university, the State System, and others to task for the problems highlighted this week in a New York Times article.
Under the title, IUP leadership: A D-minus in crisis communication, Michele Papakie writes of her disappointment in IUP president Michael Driscoll for not being open about the university’s actions in reaction to its deepening financial plight. She criticizes Driscoll and other administration members’ inaccessibility and the “countless admissions experts and paid enrollment-management consultants bleeding IUP drier and producing weaker results.”
Papakie says she is “disgusted” that public institutions such as IUP are “behaving as if they are private companies that don’t owe taxpayers public explanations for their actions or inactions, particularly their inaction in planning for the future.” She also is critical of The Indiana Gazette and Renda Broadcasting for not delving into the problems beyond publishing and airing IUP’s press releases, and of State System Chancellor Dan Greenstein for not responding to the Times’ request for comment in their story.
To read the article by Michele Papakie, visit https://thehawkeyeonlinenews.wordpress.com/.
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