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[QUOTE="John Greene, post: 1355216, member: 1506"]
I have no dog in this fight, I am a UConn Alum but not a member of the AA so have no vote.  I have commented in the past on how lame the outreach of UConn was when compared with my grad school, NYU.  My youngest child is an alumna of Emory.

Like so many middle managers who get the top slot at a new organization, Newton is trying to recreate at UConn the structure that is in place at Emory.  Fund raising and alumni relations are handled by a single organization there. In my daughters's opinion this results in fund raising having the first priority.  She has stopped attending alumni functions since she is tired of getting hit up for contributions constantly at all of them This may be good or bad depending on your point of view.

I  met Newton on numerous occasions when he was at Emory and all I can say is he makes a very good first impression.  However, the more I saw of him the more I thought there was a little bit of the snake oil salesman in him.  Like Susan Herbst do not expect him to be a UConn lifer. He will do his thing until he sees a better opportunity and then he is gone.  That is not meant to be a put down since I believe that that is the correct attitude for any employee of a large organization.
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