On the Crisis at Ave Maria Law School

I haven’t been keeping track of the events at Ave Maria University or Ave Maria Law School, so I don’t know all the ins and outs. However, after reading this posting at Mirror of Justice regarding a disagreement between the faculty and the Board of Ave Maria as to whether to move the school from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Ave Maria Town near Naples, FL (a town being built to reflect Catholic values near the location of Ave Maria University). The faculty make some good points. At first, it appeared to me to boil down to a straightforward disagreement between faculty and board members, and if your board and your biggest financial backer wants you to move, you got to move, no matter how much you disagree or how bad you think the decision is. It may be that the school has to restart from scratch and may never recover, or it may be that it will flourish. Either way, it’s the Board’s decision.

But then I read through some postings at Ave Watch regarding the firing of Father Fessio. Then you got to wonder. Although I will say that Ave Watch appears to verge on some paranoid rantings.

All in all it appears to be a very sad situation if we end up losing a promising Catholic law school and/or a promising Catholic University. I hope they can recover with some good leadership and management.

Would be interested in comments from people more in the know, or just read the comments over at Fumare (click on the puffs of smoke link).

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