AS WE REPORTED Nov 9 (Another one of Glenn Roquemore’s hobbyhorses), the issue of construction of a veterans’ memorial clock tower has come up again at the college (IVC).
The college once featured a “beloved” clock tower—a tribute, not to veterans, but to time, or maybe wood—inside its original central quadrangle, but it was torn down in 2006 owing to the structure's deterioration. Soon thereafter, the college indicated that a “new clock tower” was planned (Register, 2006). By 2008 and 2009, district (SOCCCD) documents referred to plans for a “Veterans Tribute Tower” at IVC. An IVC “Veterans Memorial Clock Tower project” was discussed in 2010, and a “Foundation Veterans Memorial Clock Tower Project” was referred to (by the President’s office) in 2013.More recently, an “IVC Veterans Tribute Tower Project” is referred to in district documents that indicate that a call for bids for construction has gone out. (That period is now over.)
But, really, who wants this thing?
Now that Glenn Roquemore has resigned from the IVC Presidency ("Woohoo!"), planned college expenditures seem to be under review, and this “million dollar” tower project has quickly come under scrutiny.
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| A tribute to time, and wood |
One wag noted that architectural renderings of the proposed tower seem to depict something that looked like a massive "guillotine."
We all stared at the rendering.
Senate VP Jeff told us that plans for a new student services complex are underway, and there is no reason why some sort of clock couldn't be included as part of that project, when the time comes to plan the dang thing.
That was reassuring to fans of big timepieces.
With such factoids before them, the Senators resoundingly defeated the agenda item.
For what that's worth.
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IN OTHER NEWS: widely detested IVC administrator Linda Fontanilla (Vice President for Student Services) recently received a new contract, but it was only for a single year. Most other administrators and managers received 2-year contracts.
I attended last week's meeting of the School of Humanities. During the meeting, we were treated to a presentation by one of the college's chemists, who was there to discuss ongoing efforts to compose "learning objectives." Since he was a chemist, and since he asked if we had any questions, I said, "Is it true that Kiana Tabibzadeh will be returning to IVC?"
Kiana, you see, used to teach Chemistry around here. And she's Glenn Roquemore's wife.
The question seemed to throw the fellow a bit. Then he said, "at yesterday's department meeting, we were told that that might happen." —Something like that.
You'll recall that, after years and years of nepotistism-based Kianistic high-handedness and abuse over in the B200 Building, our Kiana was sent packing to the other college, Saddleback. But now hubby has resigned the IVC Presidency, and he'll be returning, in the Fall, not to IVC, but to Saddleback. (Why there? Dunno.)
So I guess that led to Kiana's direction to go north.
—Or maybe these events are unrelated.
Dunno.
Question: why did Glenn resign and not serve out the rest of his contract? What was that about?
And: is he getting paid in the Spring (while he enjoys home life)? Even though he resigned?
I attended last week's meeting of the School of Humanities. During the meeting, we were treated to a presentation by one of the college's chemists, who was there to discuss ongoing efforts to compose "learning objectives." Since he was a chemist, and since he asked if we had any questions, I said, "Is it true that Kiana Tabibzadeh will be returning to IVC?"
Kiana, you see, used to teach Chemistry around here. And she's Glenn Roquemore's wife.
You'll recall that, after years and years of nepotistism-based Kianistic high-handedness and abuse over in the B200 Building, our Kiana was sent packing to the other college, Saddleback. But now hubby has resigned the IVC Presidency, and he'll be returning, in the Fall, not to IVC, but to Saddleback. (Why there? Dunno.)
So I guess that led to Kiana's direction to go north.
—Or maybe these events are unrelated.
Dunno.
Question: why did Glenn resign and not serve out the rest of his contract? What was that about?
And: is he getting paid in the Spring (while he enjoys home life)? Even though he resigned?
19 comments:
Didn't Glenn want to add emblem of Trump's Space Force to the design?
That does sound like Glenn.
I think our board is now better than "clueless and defiant" - at long last.
Really? They've known about the Roquemore problem for YEARS. They need a kick in the ass, not warm and fuzzies.
Yeah, after 17 and a half years of Roquemorian incompetence, they finally make a move when he "goes too far."
They're ridiculous.
Credit goes to the new chancellor. The board looked away for too many years about too many things. Remember Rodney Poindexter? Howard Gensler? (They put him in a classroom, for god's sake!) Richard Moreley? Al Tello?
I’m with Roy on this one. 10:39, by your logic the Chancellor and this Board are as complicit as any other. “They put him a a classroom, for god’s sake!” applies equally to both Gensler and Roquemore. Ridiculous, indeed.
Roy is generally right. Someone should check out those policies that allow retreat rights.
By law Glenn had retreat rights. He went from a tenured faculty position into admin. He gets to go back.
Gets to retreat ONLY if there’s an available position. Was there?
Really? Then how did Bugay get to IVC? Or Gensler to Saddleback?
There was space for him in the schedule. Killed off all the PT faculty though...
Gensler and Bugay had it in their contracts. Those are different and I do not believe the board puts that in contracts anymore though.
Quick question for Lisa: Is putting linda fontanilla's picture up on your blog the direction you want to go in? Why invoke professionalism when a student identifies Fontanilla as a threat to student wellbeing, if you're completely fine when your colleagues mock her for a cheap, partisan laugh?
Lisa did not put Linda's mug on this post; I did.
What's wrong with including this picture? By what logic is including a flattering picture of LF here an instance of "mocking" her " "for a cheap, partisan laugh"?
Do try to make sense. Sometimes a picture is just a picture. —Roy
Anon@8:29: I am not sure what you are talking about but if you are concerned with "threats" and how certain administrators on this campus do and don't respond to them (or even recognize them as such), I am sure Lisa is one to talk to about that subject. Go for it.
Lisa has criticized students for using LF's very flattering picture in a presentation about why the school doesn't respect lgbt rights, and in fact often participates in further harassment if you try to report something.
In fact rather than actually criticizing this student directly, she went behind their back and started gossiping with an unrelated student about how fucking gauche that was using this unrelated student's personal email. This exchange was then posted semi-publicly in an online forum.
It's hypocritical of her to allow this content on a blog that she co-hosts when she clearly disapproves of putting up Linda's picture.
Clearly you guys only care about LF because she's a conservative, and ha ha it's so funny that she's incompetent twat who likes "big clocks", and you fail to understand the gravity of what it means to have her as YOUR ONLY POINT OF CONTACT after you have just been raped, or discriminated against because you were the wrong sex or sexuality, or had your friend go through these things. Which is more important?
Also, to the anon, I think I may know who you are, and you should really consider thinking twice before sending vulnerable students
her way. Or just before you speak in general, if you are that person.
Lisa has outed people in the past without their permission and to people she knew to be hostile to their specific identity. The student she outed had been very clear in the past about their boundaries related to outing them to others. And she thought that 30 seconds of gossip was more important than that kid's privacy and dignity as a human.
Hopefully she is not the best person to talk to at IVC. But if she is, that says more about IVC than anything else.
(To the anon at 6:18)
2:19, what are you on about?
You write: "Lisa has criticized students for using LF's very flattering picture in a presentation about why the school doesn't respect lgbt rights"
That just doesn't make any sense.
Students used LF's "very flattering picture"?
In what presentation?
And Lisa criticized these students?
WTF?
@bauer ask her next time you see her.
1) This happened at a GSA presentation on the incident reporting processes last spring. 2) I can't out students to you as lgbt. 3) The photo was a professional photo that Linda definitely posed for.
Of course Lisa's actions don't make sense. WTF is exactly right. It's called hypocrisy, a very common phenomenon among humans. The fact that I'm describing someone doing 2 different behaviors that don't match up... doesn't necessarily mean I'm lying, it may just mean she treats students one way and you another way.
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