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By Lauren Graves
It wasn’t the meeting I wanted to attend. Budget talk. Money, or the lack there of. The “F” word ... Furloughs. But as I sat amongst other faculty and staff members and we collectively faced a disconcerting future, the room took on a tone that acknowledged the subject’s weight and still found room to breathe.
Tim Hynes isn’t the kind of guy to stand behind a podium. He’s out there with the rest of us. No disrespect to leadership who chooses a more formal approach, but, in my opinion, no one would have left a Doomsday budget presentation with a shred of optimism unless they had witnessed the interplay between a very serious
matter and a person who doesn’t take himself too seri- ously.
“I take the work of creating conditions for support- ing learning very seriously, even if I don’t take myself too seriously,” Hynes shares. “We may not be able to change the economy, but what we can do is create con-
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