Well, we've been in hibernation. Readers, here, apparently have not. We see comments, on old posts, over the last several months. Well, here is some fresh news to chew on:
Southern Illinoisan: JALC president is a finalist for job in Kansas The subtitle was, "Report: Dreith called decision to take JALC post 'worst mistake'
And, over in Jackson County, Southern Illinoisan: SIU Enrollment drop leads to $5.3M loss
In other news: Daily Egyptian: Dunn could be done with double duty soon What the article doesn't point out is that Koropchak was also a vice chancellor and dean of the Graduate School. ...They also skipped a bit of the search history. The BOT reinterviewed TWO of the Chancellor candidates, not just the "preferred" one. That left current interim provost Susan Ford (Koropchak's interim successor at the Graduate School) apparently still holding the fort.
While Dodge City Kansas may be looking for a Matt Dillon, what they might be getting is Festus in return!
ReplyDelete"Drieth looking Dodge City Kansas"
ReplyDeleteWe are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Douglas MacArthur
Chickens coming home to roost for these two terribly run institutions.The people of Southern Illinois have a very rude awakening ahead due to the nepotism and incompetence. Drieth is an easy target, but who to blame when he is gone? Certainly not the BOT and their friends and relatives...
ReplyDeleteWhere are the lawyers? People being rewarded far beyond their job preformance seems to warrant, others being set up to fail through reassignment to entirely new areas, others demoted without notice? An interim vp signing for an all-but-fired president? New jobs created without advertising or search? They all need to lawyer up and stop this out of control board. Or as Jackie Hancock said "part of the board".
ReplyDeleteAt the board’s July 28 meeting, trustees voted 5-2 to install Peterson. Dreith did not recommend the hire.
ReplyDeleteNor did he recommend a $900,000 investment in support and help-desk services for the online higher-education management program known as Jenzabar. Board members unanimously passed that measure at their Sept. 22 meeting.
JALC board policy states, “The board will adopt policy only after receiving recommendations from the president.”
Dreith did not speak during the Jenzabar discussion or the vote that followed.
Instead, Vice President for Business Services & College Facilities Brad McCormick recommended the board choose one of two possible service packages, and board members settled on the $900,000 option.
Also at the Sept. 22 meeting, Dreith declined to recommend a 10-employee restructuring meant to help boost enrollment.
Trustees unanimously voted that measure through on Peterson’s recommendation.
"Administrators, including Dreith, wrapped up meetings Tuesday with six different collective bargaining units seeking input on cost-saving measures. Unrepresented employees will also be met with, and the college has set up an online suggestion box for staff to submit their ideas, he said.
The fiscal hit could wind up being worse than currently projected, thumped by declining credit hours — on which reimbursements are based — and potential cuts to state funding for higher education. A roll-back of the state’s temporary income tax hike would also hurt."
"Adjunct instructors struggle to make ends meet"
"John A. Logan College ordered to repay $1.7 million"
"John A. Logan College officials are looking for ideas on how to pay nearly $1 million to expand its computer network for technology growth, college President Mike Dreith said.
Trustees were apprised of the need last week as they and college administrators began work to finalize a new budget, expected to be adopted next month."
"The college has been awarded a $180,000 state grant to pay for half the cost of the new cameras, an expense beyond money needed for the network upgrade, Dreith said."
“Our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs are vital to our future and we are going to have to find ways to fund network upgrades to meet the needs of these programs,” she said." Hear! Hear!
"At JALC, President Mike Dreith attributed the drop to the loss of accreditation of an adult-education course at the Community Health Education Complex, or CHEC building. The Carterville-based community college saw a 38 percent decrease in enrolled students and a 16 percent drop in total credit hours.
“This is apples to oranges,” he said of comparing 2014 to 2015 enrollment.
Dreith said 1,100 students on average enrolled in the CHEC-building program each semester. Enrollment decreased by 1,339 from that term to summer 2015, from 3,564 to 2,225."
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One for Logan's Playbook: Fall in Line or fall out or the the bullies will push you out.
Or how about?
"It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
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Taxpayers and Student will suffer for the fiscal recklessness of this college's leadership who failed to to provide a low cost education to the Community and Region.
The employees and adjuncts and their families who depend on this irresponsible leadership are next in line for the financial hardship that was promised in the passages quoted earlier.
Is anyone in Springfield listening? Where are our earnest state congressmen and senators? Is there a God? Is there Justice?
Report Abuse Cato the youngest - October 13, 2015 6:05 pm Paying extra $900,000 to fix bugs in the code that the vendor of the Jenzabar won't fix, despite being already paid $3 million for the program plus annual fees of $500,000 to use it?
ReplyDeleteKevin Hefner Report Abuse Kevin Hefner - October 13, 2015 5:20 pm The district must have lots of money to be throwing it around like this. $900,000 contracts. Paying more than one administrator. Politics as usual
INTEGRITY - "In 2014, the year he left the agency, House was asked to repay to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources $7,200 in travel reimbursements he was not entitled to."
ReplyDeleteDISPARAGING REMARKS "Mandy Little, a former student trustee who ran for a seat on the board this past spring, expressed her disappointment in the board, stating she thought board members had lost sight of their charge – to serve students.
“I frankly am ashamed that I was a member of this board because right now there are no positive words to describe it,” she said
"JALC administrators turned a $3.6 million deficit into a $9,000 surplus this past year by increasing tuition by 10 percent and initiating a retirement-incentives plan, among other things." And then turned around and turned it into a $900000 and we will pay the outgoing President $170000 as a severance package as per the contract and as per Gov. Rauner's new Stipulations.
$170,000? Peanuts.
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