Martinez is final pick as President
Kathy Johnson
Issue date: 5/16/07 Section: News
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The trustees have chosen a final candidate, one of the committee's two finalists, Martinez (no relation to Board President Martinez) and they approved the original plan for a site visit to his last place of employment as President of Grossmount College.
The trustees will base their final decision to appoint Martinez as President of the college on the results of the site visit, where trustees and other Rio representatives will gather information and conduct interviews with staff, faculty and students at Grossmount regarding Martinez' performance there according to college officials.
If the site visit's results are acceptable to the trustees, they said then Martinez will be the next president of Rio Hondo, but if not, then they will start the search over.
Rio's Faculty Association President Jim Newman has recommended that the Rio community support the site visit by participating and said he believes faculty and students will benefit.
Newman's recommendation of support is vastly different from what the campus experienced a few weeks ago when the four main governing bodies on campus formed an Alliance of No Confidence.
The No Confidence statements were issued and delivered to the board by each group when a frenzy of outrage occurred on campus as a result of the board's decision to derail the selection committee's recommendations to the board and what many on campus considered a violation of 'shared governance.'
The problems on campus peaked when the committee submitted two candidates as finalists for the board to review and they deemed the rest of the 10-candidate pool unacceptable as president of Rio.
The board's response was to reject one of the two finalists and choose four more candidates from the pool plus they reportedly canceled the open forum and the site visit, and then conducted interviews without an equal employment opportunity monitor.
This occurred behind closed doors and then the board president reported no action taken at the board meetings when it appeared they had taken action.
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