Members of the faculty of the faculty of the Faculty of Morris carried more than their usual graduation of Regalia during the beginning ceremony of 2021 of social distancing. Many pins and shirts began to "keep the seven ccm", as they greeted the students who came out of the gym after the ceremony, simultaneously showing the support of the students and sending a message to the administration about the dismissals of seven colleagues of the faculty.
The Union of Faculty at the New Jersey Community College requests the resignation of Anthony Iacono, the President of the institution since 2016, after his administration unexpectedly fareweed six members of the School of Tenure Follow-up in April and one last December. The members of the Union believe that the terminations were unfair and motivated politically; All the people dismissed were active members of the faculty association, and two of them led the committees of the Union.
The campus has been called by the anger of the faculty and distrust of students since then. The teachers describe the generalized fear throughout labor security, some members of the main faculty are leaving the institution and almost 500 people have signed a request for students condemning the loss of the seven teachers.
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The President of the Faculty Association, James Capozzi, an assistant professor of English and Philosophy and one of the seven people Farewell, he said that the call of the Union for Iacono's resignation comes after years of tensions about his leadership. The Association plans to send a document of approximately 100 pages to each member of the Trustee Board this week that details a series of frustrations . With the handling of Iacono campus affairs that extends to L Summer 2017. The complaints of it include the supposed intimidation of student journalists, the negotiations of controversial contracts and, more recently, the local police question five of the faculty members dismissed about an incident of vandalism in the house of the President. , that Capozzi looks like a tactic of intimidation after the teachers spoke against their dismissals. Members of the Faired Faculty are scheduled to appeal their endings at the hearings before the Committee of Personnel of the Board of Trustees today.
"It's not something we've done too much," said Capozzi. "This is a pattern of behavior that essentially goes back to the beginning of the mandate of him as president."
Jeffrey M. Lawyer, Vice President for the Board of Trustees, said the president continues to have full. support for.
"The County College of Morris has flourished and grown as an institution under the leadership and direction of President Iacono," he said in a statement. "The Board of Trustee of CCM is behind the decision we made, we support the President Iacono 100 percent and we hope to work with him for many years." googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display (" dfp-ad-article_in_article ");); Do you want to announce? Click here
Leaders of the Faculty Association Claiming The Ninth of Contracts is an effort to burst the union, given that the seven members of the faculty were active members. The impulse for the renunciation of Iacono follows the votes separated from non-confidence in it by the Faculty Association and by the Union representing the Heads of Department, the Academic Chairs and Assistant Chairs Association. Members of the farewell faculty also presented an unfair job work.
