Thursday, April 24, 2008

He followed them out the door

A BLOW TO THE NOGGIN FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH. In this morning’s Inside Higher Ed:
A committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Wednesday rejected a proposal by the Institute for Creation Research to start offering online master’s degrees in science education, The Dallas Morning News reported. While the full board still must vote, Wednesday’s action was a major defeat for the institute, which teaches that evolution did not take place. Raymund Paredes, commissioner of higher education, recommended the vote against the institute’s proposal, saying: “Evolution is such a fundamental principle of contemporary science it is hard to imagine how you could cover the various fields of science without giving it the proper attention it deserves as a foundation of science. Religious belief is not science. Science and religious belief are surely reconcilable, but they are not the same thing.” Institute officials have said that they may reframe their proposal or sue the board.
REMEMBER NED DOFFONEY? The Final Three: NOCCCD announces finalists for the district's chancellor postion:
The North Orange County Community College District recently announced the three finalists for the chancellor position which will become vacant July 1, when current Chancellor Jerome Hunter retires. ¶ The finalists for the position are: Rita Cepeda, president of San Diego Mesa College, Ned Doffoney current president of Fresno City College, and Christopher C. O'Hearn the former superintendent/president of Mt. San Antonio College. ¶ … The new chancellor will be announced some time in May.
Doffoney was President of Saddleback College (but not for long) when the infamous “Reorg” occurred in July of 1997. As I recall, he was the only administrator who stuck around to answer questions from anxious faculty after the decision was announced. Raghu Mathur, then IVC interim President, who plotted and schemed to help bring about the (illegal) Reorg, and who assured IVC faculty that no major changes would occur during the summer, refused to answer questions, and simply followed his Brown-Act violating patrons out the door.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Having worked with Ned, who protected people--staff, faculty and administrators (much to the characterless wonder who minces around the 3rd floor behind locked doors), I know that he (Ned) is a good man and administrator. And he has a fine sense of humor.

North Orange County would have a counter weight to what we have down in the southern part of it.

Anonymous said...

How does Mathur live with himself?
(And who would choose to live with him?)

Anonymous said...

Mrs. Mathur

Anonymous said...

Wonder how the president of Fullerton College feels about the possibility of Ned being chancellor of her district?

Anonymous said...

Luckily, she is a class act and would probably welcome him. He's a good guy, another one who was forced out of our wonderful district by evil Dot and Co. By the way, whoever's wondering how Kathie H. feels about possibly working for Ned might also wonder how she feels when she remembers that she was once the SOCCCD's acting chancellor, and a damn good one. To think that our now joke of a district could have had her for chancellor all this time ... They LOVE her at Fullerton College, by the way.

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