A classic president-faculty showdown is in the offing at Massachusetts Bay Community College, in Wellesley, Mass. The president, Carole Berotte Joseph, says she’s making much-needed changes at the college. But faculty members say she’s just making trouble.

And now the faculty union is considering a no-confidence vote, citing concerns about her “heavy-handed and abrasive style,” according to today’s Boston Globe. Faculty members are particularly upset about a reorganization that ousted all six of the college’s deans, the newspaper reported. They say the upheaval led the state nursing board to bar the college’s popular nursing program from admitting new students until it hired more-qualified personnel.

Ms. Joseph says the administrative overhaul was needed to free up resources to better serve students, for example, by hiring more academic advisers and full-time faculty members. And she says all the hubbub is being stirred up by a small group of faculty members with “an ax to grind,” according to the Globe.

We’ll see who wins this war of words. —Elyse Ashburn