The remark Walter Harris must be referring to was made by me at a UPT   meeting last spring (April 18, I believe) at which Walter Harris   himself was not present.  My concern at the time was to include   education in the deliberations and reports.

The meeting was held during the 9 days we had to give feedback on the   Pathways plan.  We were discussing the SCAP report on the plan.  I   pointed out that the SCAP report endorsed eliminating the education   department and reinstated broadcast communications and computer  science.  However, while there were representatives of both broadcast   journalism and the math & computer science departments on the SCAP   committee, there was no one from education.  I pointed this out and said that if they wanted to be taken seriously, they needed to include someone from education.  I was arguing for the inclusion of education,   and asking that education be included in the future.  I basically did   not want Loyola to eliminate the education department.  I was also   afraid that if they did not include education, their report could be   more easily dismissed as self-serving.  Members of the SCAP committee   present at the UPT explained that their committee was formed quickly   from the available members of SCAP who could stay in town and spend their Easter holidays working and that no one from education was a member of SCAP.  They did not purposely exclude education; education was simply not represented on SCAP and therefore was not even there when they put their committee together.  They also agreed that   education should be included.  And I think that they did follow up on that, because I know Marge Dermody was included in some future meetings.

After making those remarks and since time was running out in the very narrow window in which anyone could give feedback on Pathways, I also asked UPT if that committee wanted to do our own report on the   Pathways plan.  The committee basically liked the SCAP report and decided to accept and endorse the SCAP report.  Thus the SCAP report was endorsed by the UPT, a university-wide committee, not a narrow self-interested group.

Overall, I have serious difficulties with being quoted out of context   by someone who was not even there, did not hear what I said, and was   not part of the conversation about why I said it.

Thanks for letting me know about this.  Feel free to share my comments   with others.