Dear Willard College, As we enter into the face paced world of the challenging landscape of higher education, we are thrilled to announce the college’s new general counsel, Dr. Rudolph Giuliani!

Sincerely, Provost Vandergrind

Dear Willard Community, We are excited to announce that President Donald J. Trump has asked Willard College to become the home of the Doald J. Trunp Presidential Library. There is nothing more to say. We are so proud and excited.

Details will follow.

Sincerely, Provost Vandergrind

Dear Willard College Students, your families, caretakers, loved ones, etc.

While other colleges jump on the bandwagon of online education in response to the COVID-hoax, Willard College is going forwards by going backwards to the GREAT American tradition of by-mail correspondence courses. Each week, students will receive a package from each faculty. Please fill out the required materials and mail back. Remember to affix the correct postage.

Please also note that not all the faculty who were employed at Willard College last spring are currently employed with us. We expect by mid-November, all course reassignments will be complete. In the meantime, please be patient as we repurpose and humanely redistribute the remaining beloved faculty.

Sincerely, Provost Vandergrind and President Dr. Henry Cotton

Dear Colleagues, While we continue to hash out the details of what the Fall semester will look like, we are excited to announce sever preliminary steps that we feel will enhance our capacity, ease transitions and pivots, and to provide us some initial benchmarks.

1. Renovate and increase capacity of the old Willard Asylum morgue
2. Purchase a new backhoe for increasing our capacity to dig graves
3. Renovate the old asylum cemetery and assess new burial sites
4. Restart Athletics program

Please keep an eye on your email over the summer for more updates!

Sincerely, Associate Vice Provost Milton Vandergrind

 

 

We are excited to announce that Associate Vice Provost Milton Vandergrind will be leading the Willard Reimaging Working Group. With 20 years of experience in the Cruise Ship Industry where Dr. Vandergrind is a thought-leader, he will leadership the campus efforts to respond elegantly and gently to the post-COVID 19 reality. In his opening remarks, shared below, Dr. Vandergrind shared his philosophy of leadering. “We are living in a state of exception, and as such authority and decision making must revert to the original source, that of the office of the President and the person of its occupant, Dr. Henry Cotton and in the case of his incapacitation, either Provost Shames or Associate Vice Dean, Cheryl Tina Faye Cotton. This is the end of any messaging that would be relevant to faculty or staff. Please cease all underground communications and await further instructions.” At the conclusion of his remarks, we enjoyed a lovely luncheon of cold salmon, cucumber salad, and chilled white wines.

Sincerely, Dr. President Henry Cotton

 

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Dear Junior Leadership Team,

As we continue to develop a response to COVID-19 and its impact on our community the Senior Leadership Team seeks input from the Junior Leadership Team. The SLT takes the JLT’s input seriously. SLT cannot do it alone. We need JLT. Please fill out the questionnaire that was mailed to you last week. All forms must be filled out correctly. Do not fill in the bubbles incorrectly. Any form that is not completely and correctly filled in will be destroyed. We will not send the JLT new forms.

Sincerely,

President Henry Cotton and the SLT

Dear Campus Learning Communities, Individuals, and Persons who choose not to identify,

As I settle into my first day at Willard College, I want to share my reflections on this vibrant and loving community that we call Willard College! In the midst of Covid-19, many Thought Leaders, of which I humbly count myself, see only opportunity in the plunging enrollments, endowments, and faculty employment and the skyrocketing student debt, unemployment futures, and low morale (isn’t that funny that low morale is skyrocketing?). We have a unique opportunity to reimagine and reawaken Willard College. But we have to ask tough but loving questions. Do we need as many faculty? Do we need to have a brick and mortar campus? Which departments do not align with the Strategic Planning Process Committee? We are in the midst of a forest fire but the trees that survive, some only as saplings, will make a new and beautiful forest! We all have a role to play but need faculty participation.

Feel free to write me directly and I’d love to hear your dreams for where we can go together, or as individuals, or however you want to position yourself, or however you are positioned as we move forward, together and some of us apart.

Please also feel free to address me as Dr. Provost Shames.

Sincerely, Dr. Provost Shames

Dear Willard College Community,

As you know, there are calls from students to get refunds for room, board, tuition, student fees, late fees for student fee non-payment, library fines, grade change requests fees, etc. Some have threatened legal action. Willard College stands firm and in solidarity with its Board of Trustees that there have been no interruptions to our normal teaching standards since we moved to remote and online teaching as a result of COVID-19. In fact, as you can see from this earlier story, Willard College was a Pioneer in Remote Teaching! We are confident that we know how to do this kind of teaching better than any comparable institution.

We will continue to turn a deaf ear to the protests and threats of law suits. Willard continues on the Willard Way. Always against the odds. Always innovating. Never looking backwards.

Sincerely, President and Doctor Henry Cotton, PhD