D&C on the MCC selection history. D&C misses the mark
There was an article in the D&C today on the MCC President selection process - specifically over the disposal of interview video tapes. In the print edition and the on-line edition there is a separate text box (I don’t know what these are officially called) which contains background information on the whole MCC selection process story. Check this out and tell me what is missing.
Background
The search for a new Monroe Community College president to replace R. Thomas Flynn, who is retiring at the end of the school year, started last summer. Two search committees — the Presidential Search Advisory Committee, appointed by the school’s board of trustees, and the Special Committee on Administrative Affairs, a standing committee of the Faculty Senate — interviewed candidates and recommended five semifinalists in February.
The MCC board added Rochester businessman Dennis Kessler and Bill Smith, a Pittsford lawyer and former Monroe County legislator to the list.
The search committees interviewed the seven semifinalists, including Kessler and Smith, before recommending two finalists: Broome Community College President Laurence Spraggs and Kenneth Ender, president of Cumberland County College in Vineland, N.J.
Although they were not recommended by the search committees, the board voted 6-4 on March 24 to add Smith and Kessler to the list of finalists.
By adding the local candidates, the board has triggered accusations from faculty, students and community residents that a majority of trustees is attempting to manipulate the search process.
How do you have a background piece that does not mention the state of the selection process? After the Chair of the Trustees (Van Dusen) was ousted and replaced by Guon it became partisan. Â I mean - MCC President retires, Trustee Board selects Selection board, Trustee Board President UNEXPECTEDLY RESIGNED after being forced out. How does his NOT make it into the generic background piece?
Yet again our media (in these case the D&C news editors) let us down by not even mentioning it.
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