COLLEGE BOARD HAS TO LOOK BEHIND THE WORD

Ocean County College Board of Trustees needs to start questioning what is going on at the college. While enrollment is down it is reported they provided President, Jon Larson with a $25,000 raise, increased annuities, continued paying for his home, a car and many none related business expenses. The President of OCC is now the highest paid President of all the county colleges in the State of New Jersey.  The Board also provided other Administrators with major raises, all this when Administration has refused to settle any labor contracts  for over three years and is now locking unions out of their office.  All of this while the campus is falling apart, the Nursing Building has been empty for over two years because of mold, the Instructional Building has the heat on 24 /7 all year long  so the pipes won't leak,  the Russell Building is such poor shape they are considering demolition, the "New" eight million dollar power plant doesn't work and finally bursting pipes throughout the campus.  Then how much money did the college spend on the failed courting of China for distance learning?  Now OCC wants to spend 1.5 million dollars to recruit students in Egypt, and the middle eastern countries. There is the no bid contract with  "Pearson", which they are paid to recruit  students at $200 each when the course cost is about $300.  Not to mention Pearson invited Jon , and we believe, they paid partially for a trip  to a exclusive golf resort for a conference .

 In defense of Boards of Trustees, the members only know what they are told by the administration.  It is time for all public Boards to take a serious look as to what is going on in the intuitions that they are responsible in protecting.