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Nepotism policy on tap for tech schools


From wire and staff reports



   Technical college presidents effectively would be barred from hiring family members under a proposed nepotism policy expected to be adopted next month by the state Board of Technical and Adult Education.
   A draft version of the policy, which stems from a recent controversy over college presidents hiring relatives, will be presented for a vote by the board that oversees Georgia’s 34 technical colleges.
   The draft would not specifically target the presidents, but it would ban relatives from working as supervisor-subordinates.
   The department’s commissioner, Mike Vollmer, said the new policy will help “set a standard for high ethical behavior.”
   The one-page draft policy also would prohibit relatives from working together if their pairing could lead to personal or financial gain, fraud, collusion or a possible conflict of interest.
   Five of the 34 college presidents have acknowledged that they had relatives on staff. Three presidents either fired their relatives or asked them to resign. A fourth is retiring and her two relatives are keeping their jobs.
   A fifth president – who had three relatives on the payroll – also resigned after questions were raised.


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Georgia gets with the program! Will Alabama be next?

"Presidential nepotism" in Mississippi community colleges is not very common. (The widely publicized J.J. Hayden episode at Gulf Coast, followed about 10 years later with problems at Hinds, kind of put everyone on alert that it was an invitation to public embarrassment.) The few instances I can think of off-hand right now are situations where both spouses were faculty and/or administrators when one of them was promoted.

To be honest, a president's wife in a Mississippi community college can have a full-time job being a president's wife, if she elects to "do the job right." More than one president has told me "it's a package deal" & that his spouse did things that he frankly didn't know how to do (e.g., properly entertain guests). It sounds sexist as hell, but to be truthful, women tend to know how to do things that men don't have a clue about. There used to be a course at USM called "social usage." I think very few males took it

Nepotism tends to be more common in community colleges at the dean's level. I've said in the past that I don't think it's fair to expect one spouse to quit when the other gets promoted & anyone who knows the difference between a CJC dean's paycheck & a USM dean's paycheck knows that the difference is about equal to a CJC faculty member's paycheck.

(My own CJC dean's paycheck is approximately $30-40k LESS per annum than a USM dean earns & believe me, there's no less work involved.)

Systemically speaking, Mississippi's CJC's are a more mature "system" than the universities & far more mature than the CJC systems in other states.

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Invictus wrote:

Georgia gets with the program! Will Alabama be next? "Presidential nepotism" in Mississippi community colleges is not very common. (The widely publicized J.J. Hayden episode at Gulf Coast, followed about 10 years later with problems at Hinds, kind of put everyone on alert that it was an invitation to public embarrassment.) The few instances I can think of off-hand right now are situations where both spouses were faculty and/or administrators when one of them was promoted. To be honest, a president's wife in a Mississippi community college can have a full-time job being a president's wife, if she elects to "do the job right." More than one president has told me "it's a package deal" & that his spouse did things that he frankly didn't know how to do (e.g., properly entertain guests). It sounds sexist as hell, but to be truthful, women tend to know how to do things that men don't have a clue about. There used to be a course at USM called "social usage." I think very few males took it Nepotism tends to be more common in community colleges at the dean's level. I've said in the past that I don't think it's fair to expect one spouse to quit when the other gets promoted & anyone who knows the difference between a CJC dean's paycheck & a USM dean's paycheck knows that the difference is about equal to a CJC faculty member's paycheck. (My own CJC dean's paycheck is approximately $30-40k LESS per annum than a USM dean earns & believe me, there's no less work involved.) Systemically speaking, Mississippi's CJC's are a more mature "system" than the universities & far more mature than the CJC systems in other states.
What about a CJC President's husband?

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When this question came up several years ago in the Mississippi system, Marthat Tisdale left JCJC and was hired by USM to teach music. Qualified? My friends in music told me that technically she was not. She did not have a doctorate. But they thought she was a good teacher and worked very hard.

Now, as a side, why is ex-JCJC pres Terrell Tisdale in SFT's pocket? Anyone know the connection?

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P.S. Is Bud Ginn still around? I was told that he was on the inside circle and helped plan the dean fiasco, but that he managed to stay out of sight.

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Damn Liberal wrote:
What about a CJC President's husband?


I knew some "Damn Liberal" would bring that up!

Currently, that would only be an issue at one Mississippi CJC -- Coahoma -- which is coincidentally a historically black institution & also one of the smallest CJCs in the state. In fact, since Utica JC was subsumed by Hinds, Coahoma is the only free-standing historically black 2-year public in the state.

I do not know if that president is married or if her spouse works for the institution. But if she is & if he isn't, he'd better be good with the finger sandwiches!

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Gone, gone, gone wrote:
Anyone know the connection?


Geography.

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Gone, gone, gone wrote:

P.S. Is Bud Ginn still around? I was told that he was on the inside circle and helped plan the dean fiasco, but that he managed to stay out of sight.
He is executive assistant to SFT, and has been meddling quite a bit in academic affairs. Nothing new there.

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I see a posting for admin asst to the assoc. provost. Is that new or did somebody leave?

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Bud Ginn has been working as our lobbyist.  I heard we got more money than any other university in special marks this year. 

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G3, Interesting.  Do you know or are you hinting?  Would it have to do with dividing the pool of available resources? 



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