Consultant finds nothing wrong with Mentoring program at HC
April 28, 2008
The Hocking College Board of Trustees learned last week that a report on the college’s Executive Mentoring program found nothing wrong, and discussed a program that will allow high-school seniors to take classes full time at Hocking College in the fall.
The Executive Mentoring program at Hocking was criticized earlier this year for how it was run and how degrees were awarded through it.
In February, the Board of Trustees hired Jeff Hockaday to review the program. Hockaday served as a president of two community colleges and is a consultant for higher education.
Hocking College President John Light told the board at a meeting last week, though, that Hockaday had not found anything wrong with the program.
Judy Sinnott, public information officer for the college, said that the program, which is no longer operating, would not be investigated any further.
During the meeting, the Trustees did discuss one new program that will allow high-school seniors to take all of their classes on campus at no cost to them. The program is part of the statewide Seniors to Sophomores program that is part of the new strategic plan for higher education in Ohio.
Judy Maxson, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, explained that the Ohio Board of Regents awarded $100,000 to the college to begin the program this fall with Logan-Hocking School District in Hocking County.
Maxson explained that Hocking College will be an “early adopter” in the program by starting it this fall. The college is also hoping to allow Tri-County Joint Vocational School District students to start in the program this fall, as well as students in other local districts. The funding for each district has to be worked out in order to begin the program by this fall, she said.
Other school districts will be added next year, Maxson said.
The Trustees also learned that enrollment is up by 47 students this spring, from 4,667 last year to 4,724 this year. Applications for fall 2008 are up by 194 over the same time last year, according to a written report the Trustees received.
Among other business at the meeting, Light raised the issue of the need for student housing at the college’s proposed Energy Institute in Hocking County, the board learned that former Stroud’s Run State Park manager Reid Caldwell has been hired as the new park manager at Lake Snowden, and Light discussed how the state’s strategic plan for higher education fits with some of the things the college is already doing.
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HockingHick commented, on April 28, 2008 at 10:52 a.m.:
This is kinda like a college doing its own investigation prior to NCAA sanctions, only this time there are no self-imposed penalties.
One can only hope that the Board of Regents sees through all this mess of paperwork and smoke screens. Both Hill and Light should be the focus of the Board of Regents investigation.
Light handpicked the guy doing the investigation, just like his two hand-picked deans were the ones signing off on the fake degrees.
Sinnott and Maxson are under pressure from Light to resign, and there is a full blown fight between Light and his minions and those who want HC to become a real learning institution with REAL college rules and practices.
There are certain parts of HC, put in place by Light (New College), that function as nothing but a scam for siphoning state money.
Everyone who takes any stance regarding the proper way to run an institution of higher learning will be shoved out of the way.
As soon as Light's wife becomes vice president for academic affairs, the take-over will be well on its way, and this megalomaniac will have HC ruined for anything other than a funnel for state funds.
HockingHick commented, on April 28, 2008 at 2:04 p.m.:
That was supposed to read: "this semi-senile megalomaniac"....
Clarity is everything.
