There are two alumnae groups working to right some of the wrongs you noted. One group, the Cleveland Commission for Wells, has hired a law firm to see if we can stop the closure – at least the permanent part – by taking this year “off” to get the finances and accreditation under control. It’s unclear why so many things went wrong, but we are digging into as much as we can to see what we can fix. We don’t want to see the town, the faculty and staff, the students, and us, permanently screwed because we had some ill-prepared people involved in running our beloved Wells for ten years.

Your report didn’t mention that Gibraltar never moved into the gorgeous President’s home, just off campus, but lived in Syracuse with his wife. He’s been an adjunct professor at Syracuse University for a while and one wonders how he could do that while being a full time college president. He allowed his stepson (this is rumor, but supposedly a relative at any rate) to live in the President’s house, where he lived with feral cats who destroyed the place. The destruction is supposed to have been repaired, but I hope that came out of Gibraltar’s pocket and not out of any Wells College funds.