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| Volume 6 Number 24 - Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 |
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Hellenic College Postpones Critical Meeting
BOSTON - The Executive Committee meeting of the Board of Trustees of Hellenic College/Holy Cross School of Theology that was promised to be convened in a special session in the beginning of June, has been postponed until the Fall. The meeting was said to discuss exclusively the memorandum sent by two Trustees—Professor Nicholas Patrikalakis from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor Theoharis Theoharides from Tufts Medical School—alleging violations of academic due process and administrative mismanagement on behalf of the administration. The National Herald had revealed the memorandum of the academicians in its May 15-16 edition. Although the two professors, both members of the Hellenic College/Holy Cross Board of Trustees requested that their two page memo citing 13 specific allegations be discussed at the full meeting of the Board of Trustees on Friday May 14, it was decided by the Executive Committee, presided by Archbishop Demetrios, to avoid any discussion and call a special Executive Committee session meeting to discuss the memo. In the Trustees meeting on May 14, Archbishop Demetrios spent a considerable amount of time talking about the elevation of Bishop Soterios (Trambas) of Zelon, to Metropolitan of Korea. (Demetrios and Soterios are close friends, and both belonged to the Organization “Zoe” and were spiritual children of the late Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos, who was appointed to the Archbishopric Throne of Athens with the imposition of the Dictatorship of Greece in 1967. Ieronymos promoted Demetrios to auxiliary Bishop of Vresthena). On May 21, Hellenic College/Holy Cross President Rev. Nicholas Triantafilou, and George Chryssis, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees sent an electronic message (e-mail) to the members of the Executive Committee, telling them that the June meeting had been postponed due to scheduling difficulties. “After deliberations with His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, members of the Executive Committee and the Deans, we find it impossible to coordinate schedules for a June 2nd meeting. We will continue to consider all points of discussion and move forward appropriately. We plan to discuss these issues in early Fall when all have returned from meetings, conferences and vacations,” the message reads.
Hellenic
College/Holy Cross faces Among the 13 items the memo lists was the change of Lily Macrakis from Dean of Hellenic College, as she was appointed on an interim basis only. “We strongly recommend that the announcement for search for Dean of Hellenic College and an appropriate search committee be initiated promptly, so that a candidate may be selected by December 2004 to start by September 2005,” professors Patrikalakis and Theoharides stated in the their Memo. In a Dean’s Report to the Executive Committee meeting on March 10, 2004, Lily Macrakis stated, among other things, that the Fall Semester went well. She also discussed the school’s Management and Leadership programs: “Our progress has been slow in the Management and Leadership program. Up to now, we have only two new instructors –one for Accounting and one for Principles of Management, only two students have signed up for the program. Clearly, we need both more offerings, and more students. Fortunately, we have Dr. Maria Mackavey as a consultant to help us improve our marketing strategy.’’ She also noted that the Elementary Education program, while good, needs to be strengthened if it is to continue to be viable. “In particular, to retain our accreditation from the Mass. Dept. of Education, we need to have an additional full time professor of education next year and an additional instructor soon to take care of its Greek component, which is very important for the College. We must choose, I believe, between strengthening the program or closing it.”
Hellenic
College/Holy Cross faces an almost $2 million debt
and has exhausted a $1.3 million line of credit,
as the Herald revealed in recent weeks. As a
result, on May 18, the school’s president, Rev.
Nicholas Triantafilou, called a special meeting
with the faculty and the personnel and announced
that the school faces financial hardships and thus
their benefits would be reduced. The Herald has
learned that 75 percent of students entering the
school in the Fall of 2004 are converts. Thus far,
27 applicants have been accepted. |
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