Dr. Chris Carruthers, Chair of Carleton University’s Board of Governors. (Photo: Olga Janina)
Last summer, after becoming the chair of Carleton’s Board of Governors on July 1, Chris Carruthers met one-on-one with all of his fellow board members. Through those conversations, and over countless coffee meetings at cafés on campus, something became very clear.
“I learned that Carleton is not a community — it’s a collection of communities,” says Carruthers.
“There’s the faculty community, the employee community, the graduate and undergraduate student communities, and the alumni community, as well as communities comprised of external organizations and individuals that collaborate with the university.”
Reflecting and incorporating the views of each of these groups is one of the board’s biggest challenges.
Click here to read the full “A Collection of Communities” story by Dan Rubinstein.