Interested in what the future may hold for John A Logan? Just look down the road to SIU. The SIU Board of Trustees and President Glenn Poshard are in a fight again. The last time that happened, they drug Logan into their mess. This time the stakes are higher. Some Board members terms have expired. The state Senate used the governor's new SIU Board nominations as an opportunity to poke him in the eye. Poshard used the occasion to reopen his public feud with SIU Board member Roger Herrin.
What's that got to do with John A. Logan's Board of Trustees election? Everything.
After the previous spat at SIU, a strange thing happened. Former Logan Board member, director of security and current JALC Board candidate, Bill Kilquist approached the Southern Illinoisan with a story that SIU Board member Don Lowery (an ally of Roger Herrin on the SIU board)had attempted to pressure Logan to hire his wife and later pressured Logan staff to give her a raise. Ms. Lowery apparently received the raise in 2007. Kilquist, and his co-accuser, former Logan vice president Larry Peterson, gave no reason for why they were coming forward so many years later. The Southern Illinoisan offered no explanation in its article. So, what prompted Kilquist and Peterson to come forward, with this serious accusation, so many years later? What was the prompt? One has to conclude that Kilquist and Lowery were delivering a message from Poshard to Lowery: 'back off the calls for my resignation'.
If Bill KIlquist is elected to the John A. Logan Board of Trustees, how much more deeply will Logan be pulled into SIU's political swamp?
In my opinion, it is just shameful that JALC has the image of a place where you can pressure board members or administrators to get a job or a raise for someone.
ReplyDeleteIf Kilquist is elected his future will probably be Vice President...how is this for a projected picture if incumbents are re-elected
ReplyDeleteCollege new name: Brewer Community College, Pres-Clay Brewer Vice Presidents-Steven O'Keefe, Snider, and President of Board-Sniders daddy Head of SECURITY-KILQUIST from his home as he rehabs as he did in 2012 and Vice Pres-- 2 salaries-- Pres secretary- Kilquist wife who is head secretary for Jackson County Sheriff Dept, and all new buildings in the future at Logan will be named after Don Brewers grandchildren with the exception of one building will be named the RENDLEMAN BUILDING..