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- 7:23am — August 13, 2022
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How did we get to this point? As you are all aware the College has been stumbling through a series of public controversies over the past year and a half. We are dealing with the fallout of what occurred during the Dr. Flores administration and the board's response or rather, lack of response, to those controversies. What had been internal and private is now front page news and very public.... Read more»
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2 comments on this story
Good read.
I didn’t know this guy, don’t remember him from time time at PCC, but it sounds as if he knows exactly what he’s talking about.
I’m not the only one who will tell you this, but a big part of the problem was that those five (four board members and Flores) misunderstood the dynamic. The dynamic was supposed to be that the Chancellor worked for and answered to the board. Far too often those idiots had it backwards…and while I don’t blame all PCC’s problems on that, it did cause many problems that have yet to be resolved.
While I applaud and echo the Faculty’s senate for the four board members to resign, it is not even close to enough…there are several people that need to be fired or quit Pima, from administrators on down to middle management, and even an IT Specialist. There were many that contributed to the toxic atmosphere of PCC, and all of them need to be removed if PCC has any shot in hell at healing.
Firing Doreen Armstrong and Char Fugett would be an excellent start and a great show of good faith toward the community.
This is disheartening, in a time when the states are cutting their noses off to spite their faces in cutting funding to higher ed., that people in leadership roles cede their responsibilities in a misguided sense of authoritarianism.