In the issues of university administration, it is important to consider concepts such as social justice and equality in leadership. Without social justice and affirmative action to counter the effects of democracy by the majority, the minority will always suffer from the unprecedented decisions and policies made by their counterparts. It is unfair and also contrary to administrative justice to let one community to dominate the affairs of one institution at the expense of the other communities. The Indiana State University is a case in point of the aforementioned case scenario. The Greek community is the largest in the Indiana state University fraternity. In matters of the administration and governance of the university, the Greek community will take the majority of the positions both in the student organizations and the administration. Subsequently, the administration is not at home with the fact that the university is being managed by one community.
The MU wants to case the Greek control of the Institution. The MU also wants to vest the reins of leadership in the hands of other communities Greeks included. The MU is worried of the situation in the Indiana University, as a result, of the Influence of the Greek communities that exert heavy influence in the affairs of the state university such as academics and sports. The MU is seeking to seek for an amicable solution that will factor in all the community organizations and relinquish the control of the University by the Greek communities. The major concern of the Indiana state University is to ensure that academics are prioritizing over all the other activities of the state university. To solve the standoff between the University and the faculty, they scheduled a meeting between the Greek Organizations and the faculty to discuss the manner in which the Indiana state university will prioritize academics in all the spheres of life.
In a scenario like these the Indiana University has to convince the Greek organizations of the need to prioritize academics in all the activities that the University will be involved in. Negotiation requires that parties will be willing to lose something in order to gain another in the long run. In the meeting, it was impossible to issue a proclamation that the university wishes to ensure that all the activities are academics oriented. Such a proclamation by the Indiana University will prove futile because the students will refuse to obey the proclamation by the University arguing the university is implementing authoritarian policies. The Indiana University suggested that it will provide the funding for all the events organized by the Greek Organization that placed academics at the core of the events. The Greek Organization leaders were enthusiastic about working with the University. With the University choosing to fund the majority of the activities that the organizations will be involved in the Greek organizations will also be expected to correspond to their part of the agreement. There is, however, a danger that the organizations will carry out other activities without incorporating academics as the core of the meeting. The Greek organizations and the Indiana State University signed an agreement to ensure that the university will be involved in the funding of the organizations. The planning of events is usually hectic since student organizations lack sufficient funds to carry out their activities. On the other hand, it was apparent that the Indiana state University has vast resources that if well utilized by the students they will save a lot of funds they have been directing to planning events. After the university is incorporated into the events, the cost of the events will be reduced drastically. The Indiana state university made it clear to the Greek Organizations that they could have as many events as they wanted provided they adhered to the terms of the agreement.
The Greek organizations objected the first two suggestions arguing that the Indiana University was in the process of hijacking the freedom of association of the students. The University was not supposed to be involved in any way in the process of administering the organizations. One student leader was very annoyed by the fact that the Greek organizations were just like any other American organizations and, therefore, the comments made by the faculty amounted to racial discrimination. The student leader went on further to argue that the plan by the university of funding the activities of the Greek Organization was a dubious measure by the University calculated to ensure that the Greek organizations remained under the noose of the University. The Greek leaders also contributed to the argument claiming that the university was not genuine with its claims that seemed unrealistic and a mere exaggeration of the subject matter. One student leader questioned the University why it was all of a sudden interested in the operation and the funding of the Greek organizations.
The conference between the students and the faculty had reached a deadlock. The head of the faculty stood up to address the conference. He informed them of the reason the student leaders were present in the meeting, the faculty head argued that academics took the center stage of all the activities that the university is involved. The student leaders were committing acts of intellectual dishonesty by refuting the claims that the university was trying to infringe the freedom of association. The state legislature had legislated that all the University organizations should organize events that have at least a level of academic relevance. It was not the wish of the faculty to hold the meeting was it not for the need to abide by the law of the state. The Greek Organizations at this point agreed to cooperate with the University.
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