Dr. Westmoreland,
Since I sent you a note thanking you for putting aside your personal views when presenting the Samford Together group to the faculty, I felt I needed to follow up expressing my disappointment with your unilateral decision to go against the faculty's overwhelming wish that the Board vote on formal recognition. Even if you did this out of some misguided paternalism to protect Samford Together from a rejection (or out of a desire to stave off an accompanying PR disaster for the school), your action was the wrong step.
