Letter: Probe community college’s finances
Nassau Community College in East Garden City is shown in August 2012. Credit: Google
No one is more disturbed than Nassau Community College’s faculty regarding the finding by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education that the college is lacking in seven of the 14 standards for accreditation [“Finding fault at NCC,” News, March 19].
NCC is composed of highly dedicated, credentialed faculty who will continue to do what they always have done: deliver a robust, high-quality, low-cost education to the people of Nassau County.
Since early 2010, the beginning of the college’s last failed presidency, the institution has been plagued with financial mismanagement, ever-increasing political intrusion and a failure of leadership at the top.
We call for the following: a full forensic audit of the college and its fundraising arm, the Nassau Community College Foundation; SUNY’s immediate appointment of an interim president from outside the college who has extensive higher education experience; a full investigation into problems of the presidential search; and an investigation into the mismanagement of NCC indicated by the preliminary Middle States report.
Please be assured that this faculty remains committed to our students and to serving the people of Nassau County.
Evelyn Wortsman Deluty, Kimberley Reiser
Garden City
Editor’s note: The writers are, respectively, the chair of the Academic Senate and president of the NCC American Association of University Professors.
