Managerial changes at Diablo Valley College

Today's announcement (in the form of an email from VP Terry Shoaff with the subject line "Announcement") that DVC VP of Institutional Advancement Terry Shoaff is leaving to take a job as VP at the Contra Costa Council continues the stream of managers leaving the college. Arguably, this stream started with VP Francisco Arce's trickling out in late 2003, but reached full force once Mark Edelstein retired or was promoted to New Hampshire. Since then we've seen Carole Maga's leap to Contra Costa; we've seen Sandra Holman-Trujillo hustle out just ahead of the news stories about the grade scandal; we've seen just since the hiring of Judith Walters as our new president the announced departures of VP Alice Murillo (to a vice-chancellorship! good work DOES get rewarded!) and now Terry Shoaff, who joins his long-time partner Cheryl LeMay (herself removed from her leadership at San Ramon) as a VP for the Contra Costa Council.

One thing to consider is that most of the major players in the imposition of the unwanted division dean structure are now gone. Edelstein and Maga were hearty proponents of that shift in division governance; Murillo was a stalwart supporter of the structure; Shoaff and Holman-Trujillo did nothing to advance faculty interests in this sad period marked by increased hierarchical and closed-door decision-making.

If none of the active or passive proponents of that radical restructuring remain, perhaps it's time for those of us who continue on--the faculty and staff who represent the permanent workforce of the college--to recreate the organizational structure as we wish. NOTHING could be more conducive to the restoration of our morale than to resume governing control of our academic divisions.
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