When a Nonprofit "speaks" do its Trustees also speak?
That's the question I asked myself upon learning from the Chicago Tribune, among other media, that Bob Jones University has had a change of heart and apologized for its previous racist policies and made a commitment to "sin" no more although rather than admit to sinning, admitting instead that it had been aligned with cultural norms (a point of the degree of intentionality).
Bob Jones University's statement clearly and definitively renounces its past and commits to a future of "maintaining on the campus the racial and cultural diversity and harmony characteristic of the true Church of Jesus Christ throughout the world."
There's no doubt in my mind about the sincerity of the statement and the likely hard work that must have been pursued in arriving at this place and more importantly, publicly declaring this experience.
Still, I do note that the statement is not issued on behalf of the trustees nor the school president. This makes me ask more generally, then who is this statement from? I imagine that such a policy must come from the Trustees and this is likely the case. But then, why is it not the trustees, the "owners" who clearly declare this statement? Why not indeed?