A bit of AUC awesomeness

Here's an email I received today from some school official. It's typical AUC... note the part that I bolded.


Dear colleagues:

Late yesterday afternoon, power cables delivering electricity to the New Cairo Campus were accidentally cut by a contractor working on a road outside the campus. Unfortunately, the emergency power generators did not activate as they are designed to do and it was approximately two hours before emergency generator power became available.

AUC's facilities and operations staff, in cooperation with GasCool (the operator of the utility plant), worked to resume power as quickly as possible. I do regret that this incident resulted in power not being restored to time to allow all graduate classes to meet last evening.

We are reviewing the specifics of the incident to ensure that the necessary changes are made to guarantee that there is a minimum level of emergency power available at all times. We will also be meeting this week with officials of the New Cairo municipality to explore what preventive measures can be put in place to avoid further accidents resulting in interruptions to our power supply.

As always, I appreciate your understanding as we look to make the necessary changes to our processes.

Brian