A president shot without cause, current accreditation problems, lack of quorum at the Board of Trust. Any of these problems would be a reason for concern in a higher education institution, but North Idaho College is simultaneously dealing with the three, and a Government Board that simply cannot be done well.
Beyond that, there are also accusations of a trustee of bullying, physically assault and sexually harass university employees, they claim that he is not willing to answer questions about.
These interconnected problems have prolonged for months, but culminated in the renunciation of April of two members of the Board, who started after insisting, without problems, that the president of the Board renounces. But it was not frustration that led the two trusts to resign, they said; Rather, they were making a strategic decision to save the North Idaho College of what they considered a failed leadership.
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Now Wood and Howard Hope New trust will remodel the Board and take measures on issues that affect the university.
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chose Wood for the first time for the Trustee Board in 2004, followed by Howard in 2010. Over the years, they say, the Board worked As expected, and although there were occasional disagreements, none affected the health or daily operations of the university. But that changed about a year and a half ago, they said, when two new members, Michael Barnes and Greg McKenzie, were chosen. (Barnes resigned in January due to questions about his residence, which he never answered, according to local media reports). Together with the new members, new leadership came: the members appointed Todd Banducci, elected in 2012, as president of the Board. googetag.cmd.push (function () Googetag.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article"););););););););););););););););
"The new trusts interrupted the normal government structure," said Howard.
part of that interruption was to shoot President Rick Maclennan without cause. Maclennan, who did not return a request for comments, accused Banducci of intimidating him in his time as president.
"His agenda was to get rid of the president immediately," said Howard. “Not for a good reason, but just because he was a strong personality and he was doing a good leadership job, and I think they wanted to influence the university. I think they wanted to get out of their lane as a trustee and do more administrative things, and that became a conflict between them and the president. " Li Class = "First"> The president of the University of Howard, plans to retire
