The question
Well, it has been now two weeks since beginning my new/added-on title of Assistant Dean of Women and I had a really neat and thought provoking thing happen today. The most wonderful and sweet, precious Becca Phillips came in today…and ask if she could interview me for the Bell Tower, an article about the new Deans on campus- :) I felt completely honored- Becca asked me a few simple questions- what changes will there be? what will you deal with? Do you like it?….but then she asked me a question that made me really really happy- She said what do you want to do in your role- It was a question that I knew the answer to because I had thought about it often as soon as I knew I was being prepared for this role- I told her that I wanted to make a difference- that I wanted to be fair and yet help people to try to understand that we all have guidelines at FH and that we have to follow them. I told her that I wanted mostly to build relationships with the young women that i will be working with.
I want also to have them see me as a very far from perfect individual but a person striving to be like Christ- a person who cares for these students- all of them. I know that there will be some of them who will not at all want or appreciate any guidance or guidelines but I hope that they will at least leave my office feeling like they have been treated with respect and fair and that I do really care.
I am so excited that Becca came in and asked the question~I am also so excited to have the blessing of the job that I have-and the oportunity to make a difference.
