Meetings

There is a saying that you could spend all day, every day in meetings at work. Well, we don't have time for that many meetings -- we're too busy being teacher, parent and friend to the students in our care.

But we do have meetings. Yesterday, we had a meeting of the Consejo Superior, made up of the directors of all of the majors, the religious department, the research institute, the development man, human resources, yours truly and our Director Father Freddy. The topics ranged from academics to fund-raising, day-to-day communication to long-range planning.

Father Freddy is big about teamwork. "If we cannot communicate and work as a team, none of us are effective," he said.

We have come a long way with Father Freddy. Priests are not trained to be university administrators at seminary. And Sister Damon's shoes were hard to fill. But Father Freddy has shown that we can all work and grow together, and his vision for the College, which has evolved as we have grown to over 700 students this year, has helped us meet the challenges that come with growth and change.