NOV. 19: People tell me that Don Wagner really did act like an asshole pretty much all day on Wednesday. Wasn’t just the ugly scene (especially with Lang) at Wednesday’s board meeting.You’ll note that, at the meeting, he pulled approval of the hire of that controversial IVC dean. That means that the gal who (no doubt) has already been offered the job—pending board approval—must now wait a month, at least until Hurricane Don blows itself out over the Gulf of Sacramento.
Why’d he do it? District people tell me it was ‘cause he’s still pissed at Glenn’s action/inaction in the dean search/hiring process that failed to advance Ms. G. (Ms. G seems to have disappeared entirely.)
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But Don’s now gone. Good riddance, I say. “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.”
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The word is that Roquemore and Co. seriously screwed up the “Schrader firing,” which, of course, was downgraded to a non-firing, some kind of leave. My guess is that we’ve only just begun to see the shitty residue of this untimely episode of arrogance and incompetence. Stay tuned.
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I suspect that the time has come to out Glenn and Craig for the terrible actions they have taken against classified staff, administrators and faculty. Probably students too if we knew what goes on where they are concerned. But they have been backing themselves into a snake pit. They have abandoned Wendy and they long ago lost any integrity they may have possessed. Sad. But I suspect if a vote of not confidence occurred as some recent commenter suggested that could be on the slippery slope that will end their careers. And their careers? Hardly noteworthy for anything imaginative or creative or even rational.
Yes, "classified staff, administrators and faculty"--a campus-wide vote of no confidence.
I think a vote of no confidence is appropriate. However, the vote of no confidence should be in Roquemore, Justice, and Plano. What they've done to faculty and classified leaders is deplorable and should give current faculty/classified leaders pause.
Who do we contact about a vote of no confidence?
Votes of confidence/no confidence are usually held by the Academic Senate or by that entity in conjunction with others (such as the Faculty Association or the Classified Senate). Raghu P. Mathur was the object of three such votes, including the last one, which (as I recall) was sponsored by the two Academic Senates and the faculty union (possibly others). It is important to hold (or pursue) such votes at the right time--not, for instance, as a semester is winding down. Naturally, such a vote can target one or more persons and can specify some action or policy that is the source of controversy, though I believe that recent C/NC advocates have not done that, choosing instead to allow participants simply to vote "confidence" or not in the person qua official. If faculty wish to pursue this matter, they could do so by initially raising the possibility as an agenda item for a Senate Rep Council meeting. Those who hope to achieve a powerful tool to use against a person who, in their judgment, has performed badly should be aware that faculty/denizens are not equally familiar with college events; they should recognize that many will immediately respond to the very suggestion of such a vote negatively. Such people, therefore, need to consider preliminary steps that would give faculty (and perhaps others) a chance to consider objections/complaints/charges.
I'd support a vote of no confidence for Roquemore and (In)Justice. Perfect. They deserve it. With Prendergast coming in and Williams going out (if the rumors are true!) maybe we can get the new board to take notice. Looks like Justice was lying to the board at the last meeting about contract ed. Maybe the new board will put decent people in their places.
Lying to the board, indeed, about the upcoming auditor's report showing $188,000 deficit in IVC's community ed. program last year! This is a major deal!
Starting at 1:03:53 of the video, the board caught Justice and Roquemore in several lies and obfuscations, saying the deficit was decreasing when it actually increased more than 50%, saying that it was due to competition from the city of Irvine, and then trying to back pedal and say IVC doesn't offer competing courses, etc. But what really p.o.'d the board--both factions of it--was their inability to explain where the $188k went to, since every class offered supposedly "made a profit." All this, when Saddleback's program is running in the black.
The auditor's report will come out next month, and there will be hell to pay at the board over it, and rightly so.
A vote of no-confidence may not be needed after the board gets through with these two bullshitting doofuses (or crooks)!
No, 1:52, nothing will happen. Don was the only one pushing this and with him gone the rest of the Board will let these guys skate by. Trust me, T.J. will be too raw and unwilling to rock the boat to pick up on these lies. A vote of no confidence is our only hope.
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