Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Students at Connecticut College are calling on President Katherine Bergeron to step down over plans for a controversial fundraiser in Florida. The fundraiser was set to be held at the Everglades Club, one of the oldest and most exclusive country clubs in Palm Beach. and Jewish fashion mogul Estée Lauder from even entering.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Students first occupied Fanning Hall, where Bergeron’s office is located, last month after Rodmon King, the dean of institutional equity and inclusion, resigned in protest of the college’s decision to hold a fundraiser at the Everglades Club in Florida, which has a famously discriminatory past. King resigned on Feb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

While Connecticut College ultimately canceled the event, the move came too late, prompting King to step down. As the controversy continued, faculty members overwhelmingly issued a vote of no confidence in Bergeron’s leadership in early March. The local newspaper also wrote an editorial calling on Bergeron to resign.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

I care deeply—and I always have—for the success of our faculty, the well-being of our staff, and above all, the intellectual, social, and professional development of our students. ” Bergeron continued, “For my part, I have thought hard about the events of the past weeks, and I know I will continue to learn from them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Lieberman has written and co-authored multiple books and articles relating to diversity, institutional transformation and issues affecting higher education. To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

As fundraising fell far short of the goal , Chung stepped in with a $2 million loan. And given Chung’s track record of sinking other colleges, faculty and staff worry the King’s College may be headed for the same fate. Some faculty and staff saw warning signs from the start.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

He was the first president to leave the school with a positive enrollment rate since Hurricane Katrina, and he was also the first president to lead a major comprehensive fundraising campaign in the school’s 65-year history. Before Alverno College, Foy served as Dean of the Faculty at Marian University in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020.

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