Mike Haynie congratulates students, shares term plans in campus-wide email
Acting SU Chancellor Mike Haynie congratulated students and shared plans for his term as chancellor in a campus-wide email Monday. Haynie laid out three main points central to his goals, starting with “Students are our North Star.” Avery Magee | Photo Editor
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Acting Syracuse University Chancellor Mike Haynie congratulated students and staff and laid out his guiding principles in a Monday campus-wide email as he looks to officially begin his term as chancellor in May.
As the academic year ends, Haynie addressed the campus community and shared regards he made to university leaders and deans about how he intends to lead, he wrote in the email. Haynie said he believes the entire campus “deserves the same clarity” in his intentions.
Haynie’s email laid out three main points central to his goals during his term in sections titled: “Students are our North Star,” “Collaboration is not a courtesy” and “I will be frank and forthcoming.” Students’ experience and education will be the center of every decision made, he wrote.
“(Students) are a fixed point by which every decision, every investment, and every institutional choice must be oriented,” Haynie wrote.
He wrote that in every decision he makes, he will consider how the student experience will be impacted. Haynie stressed the importance of collaboration in solving problems and its prevalence in the world SU hopes to prepare its students for.
“I will lead by listening first and always,” Haynie wrote. “I will seek out faculty who have spent careers building knowledge in their fields. I will seek out staff who keep this institution functioning with care and professionalism every day.”
Transparency will be an essential aspect of Haynie’s term, he wrote. He emphasized that he will explain all decisions he makes that affect the SU community in order to build trust “slowly, through consistent honesty.”
Haynie is optimistic that SU will overcome any challenges it faces during his term as chancellor, citing SU’s ability to overcome difficulties in the past.
“Syracuse has never been defined by the difficulty of the moment,” Haynie wrote. “It has been defined by how its people rose to meet the moment.”
