Thursday, April 27, 2006

Asbury Park Press: OCC trustees face hostile questioning

Well, it appears that Ocean County College just wants to piss off everybody now...or at least all of those who haven't been hired as administrators yet.
OCC trustees face hostile questioning
Planetarium closing, charges in student newspaper debated

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 04/27/06

BY JOSEPH PICARD
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
DOVER — A story in the student newspaper and the closing of the college planetarium dominated the public input of the monthly meeting of the Ocean County College Board of Trustees on Wednesday.

Board members and school administrators defended budgetary decisions, and denied charges of retaliation against opponents.

The student-operated Viking News, which has been crossing swords with the administration of OCC President Jon H. Larson since at least the start of the academic year, ran a front page article April 6 claiming that of the 10 New Jersey community colleges for which they could acquire data, OCC had the highest number of administrators per 1,000 students — 2.4 — and that increases in administrative salaries since 2000 have far outpaced faculty raises...

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