Elsewhere in North Dakota, Valley City State University’s 15-year president, Ellen E. Chaffee, said Monday that she planned to leave in June, the Grand Forks Herald reports.
Meanwhile, across the country, the provost of Massachusetts Bay Community College, Steve Berrien, quit yesterday after holding the post for just over a year, The Boston Globe reports. His sudden departure follows months of instability on a campus that has already lost six deans, none of whom have been permanently replaced, the reporter, David Abel, writes.
In addition, “the union representing faculty at the state’s 15 community colleges censured the school’s president, Carole Berotte Joseph,” who since taking charge in March 2005 has been sharply criticized for reorganizing the college and for “what some faculty see as her abrasive style,” he writes.
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One Response to Resignations in N.D. and Mass.
Kent Brooks - April 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Great discussion. Thanks. We are a small rural college and well and I think the ability to maneuver without a monstrous bureaucracy has been one of our strengths. Our challenge is planning for IT deployment through very rapid growth. Our FTE has has grown from 916 in the late 1990′s to over 2100 with much of that being online. We are discussing how we can continue to adapt as easily if this continues. Thanks again, I enjoy these sessions.