Constitutionally Charles Reyes is correct. NMC’s board of regents is an independent body and there are protocols in place that have to be adhered before complaints such as grievances reach the board. As for subpoenas, we would like to see this happen.
Let’s start an oversight on Ms. McPhetres, the former president, all over again and this time we will be involved to ensure that questionable unresolved gross mismanagement, negligence, missing funds, including the status of restitution payments to those students that had their scholarships checks embezzled by a former employee. And what happened to the Labor fees collected and appropriated by our legislative branch decades ago for NMC to educate and train our local force during Ms. McPhetres’ tenure — an issue that Mrs. Villegas is all too well familiar.
We want to know why such a program was shut down and reverted to Liberal Arts and Hospitality.
We want to know why was the funding also paying for other faculty payroll not related to the education and training of the local workforce.
We support this move, but only after NMC has achieved its accreditation which is due out in June.
We strongly believe that Mrs. Janel Villegas and those faculty members that have filed supposed grievances against the president are closely associated with Ms. McPhetres who resigned from the board out of spite.
It’s unfortunate that this group of faculty and now “student” are continuing this bickering.
Obviously one must look closely for it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out who these individuals are and whether their complaints have merits.
We continue to address and put forth the question as to how is it possible that these faculty members are pointing fingers at the current president as the lone culprit behind NMC’s show cause status when they are the same team assembled by the president to assist in the accreditation efforts to include the dean of academics, their supervisor, Ms. Debra Cabrera.
As for NMC’s slogan of “Students First,” we firmly believe that the current president, Dr. Fernandez, remains focused on the efforts to retain NMC’s accreditation and regardless of all the negativity and constant media reports derailing her efforts she has remained positive and optimistic, which, in our view, is a sign of a leader who is putting NMC Students FIRST.
GREGORIO CRUZ JR.
Taotao Tano
