The Marlboro College Board of Trustees has received dozens of letters and a petition with 900 signatories asking them to accept Will Wootton's offer (the “challenge”) to spend four days on campus working with senior staff and another seven days to process that work to see whether he could come up with a way forward that would not require closing the college and transferring the assets accumulated over more than 70 years to a very different sort of college in a very different sort of place.
They have finally issued a response.
The board's official statement persists in pretending that Will's offer has been accepted, that the necessary information has all been released, and that the board eagerly awaits Will's conclusions.
Most of the trustees must know that these things are not really so, as they have received detailed and repeated explanations of what is actually proposed and of Will's significant qualifications to carry it out. Individual board members have asked Will questions about what the process would entail and have received answers and reassurances directly from him.