Mad and not going to take it anymore...support for nursing, really?  Here is the door....

Faculty Votes To Fire CCRI President By June


President Concerned That Relations With Faculty Have Deteriorated


POSTED: 11:57 am EST February 26, 2005
UPDATED: 12:19 pm EST February 26, 2005

PROVIDENCE -- Faculty at the Community College of Rhode Island have
voted to recommend that President Thomas Sepe be fired by June 30, a
year before his three year contract ends.

The vote Friday by the CCRI Faculty Association was 129 to 4. The Board
of Governors for Higher Education makes the ultimate decision.

"The faculty feels the president is not taking the college in the right
direction," said Marjorie Norquist, president of the faculty
association. "There has been a serious lack of communication and trust."

Norquist wouldn't elaborate on why the faculty says it is frustrated by
Sepe's management style. Last fall, disagreements about the staffing and
operation of CCRI's new Newport campus angered many professors. They
said Sepe had selected faculty, rather than deferring those decisions to
individual departments.

Norquist also said that Sepe has been slow to fight for more money to
hire additional nursing faculty.

"We have lots of evidence" of eroding confidence in Sepe, Norquist said.

Sepe attributed the souring relationship to protracted contract
negotiations with the faculty union. He said he has made positive
changes at the school, including expanding mandatory testing for all
incoming students and requiring remedial classes for student who don't
meet a certain standard.

He denies being too slow to hire more nursing faculty, arguing that Gov.
Don Carcieri's budget for next year allows more nursing faculty at CCRI
but does not include additional money for that purpose.

"A lot of this is due to misunderstandings," he said.

Sepe, 63, said he is concerned that relations with the faculty have
deteriorated, but added that he is hopeful they can work together in the
future.  

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