As Essex County College Teeters, a Call to End Turmoil

The New York Times ^ | August 30, 2017 | Sharon Otterman

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A group of New Jersey religious leaders is calling for change at a public community college in Newark that is teetering on the brink of losing its accreditation after years of mismanagement and turmoil.

The religious leaders, outraged by the disorder at the school, Essex County College, plan to hold a news conference and rally before a board of trustees meeting Thursday night calling for an end to what they say is political interference by entrenched officials at the school that has undermined efforts to save it.

[bankwalker]

Newark, right?

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Yes.

[njslim]

Essex Community College...??

Didn’t even know it was there ..... And I live 10 miles away

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Yes, it’s in Newark near the Federal and state courthouses.

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Here’s why:

“Essex County College has about 15,000 mostly black and Hispanic students, and serves as a bridge to four-year institutions like Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology. But its leadership has been roiled with controversy since the 2010 resignation of its longtime president, A. Zachary Yamba.

The first leader appointed to succeed Mr. Yamba, Edythe Abdullah, left in 2013. The next president, Gale Gibson, was fired in 2016. She and her general counsel, Rashidah Hasan, are suing the college, alleging that they were retaliated against for pointing out potentially criminal levels of financial mismanagement. The ministers allege that the college’s new president, Anthony Munroe, the former president of Malcolm X College in Chicago, is being blocked in his reform efforts by the same internal forces.”

AA hires and students.

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That’s right; a fake school set up to give gubmint jobs to people with no value in the private sector, set up to delay the out-of-wedlock births of urban minorities.