"Let's just go with the oldest 'un"

• SPECIAL BOARD MEETING. Marla Jo Fisher of the OC Register’s “College Life” Blog informs us that

The SOCCCD has announced a special board meeting for 5 p.m. Monday (May 12) in the Health Sciences building auditorium at Saddleback College. Topic is to discuss the “concept plan and long range plan at the Advanced Technology and Education Park in Tustin.”

• RED STATE ADVICE: "HELPFUL PROFANE CAMPAIGN SLOGANS." Have you seen these guys? A friend sent me this video. Pretty damned funny (warning: one or two F bombs):



Some district history you may have missed:
vote of no confidence (2004)

New state chancellor

In this morning’s Inside Higher Ed:

• The California Community College System has its new leader and, unlike elsewhere, board members didn’t have to choose between someone with legislative connections or a background in academe – they got both. State Senator Jack Scott, chair of the Senate Committee on Education and a lawmaker since 1997, previously served as president of Cypress and Pasadena City Colleges, and as a professor and dean elsewhere. He takes over in January after completing his legislative term – where, as chair of a subcommittee that controls the education budget, he’ll be confronting the multi-billion dollar budget shortfall that community colleges have reason to fear. In January, the governor proposed $525 million in reductions for the 109-college system.

• An instructor who lost her chance to teach at California State University at Fullerton because she refused to sign a required state loyalty oath is proposing a compromise, the Los Angeles Times reported. With help from the group People for the American Way, the instructor is now willing to sign an oath that also allows her to state her unwillingness — based on her Quaker beliefs — to take up arms. With People for the American Way threatening to sue, Cal State officials are willing to talk, but the job the instructor lost has already been filled.