Seven months later, faculty and staff still to receive survey results
By: KAVAHN MANSOURI
Editor-in-Chief
Seven months have passed since the Professional Development Day that stemmed faculty and staff to an October 2012 board of trustees (BOT) meeting, which left Chancellor Myrtle Dorsey under heavy criticism.
On April 16 at the BOT meeting staff and faculty members pushed the board to be transparent.
STLCC-Forest Park Associate Professor Mark Kruger cited a lack of respect and trust as the reason faculty and staff have not received the survey results of the October Professional Development Day.
“What I’ve noticed since I’ve been in this particular community is that there seems to be a lack of respect and a lack of trust between different groups of the community,” Kruger said. “I have no doubt that without respect and no trust between groups, the institution cannot function in a healthy matter.”
Kruger said staff and faculty have been continuously denied the results to the survey.
“The next month we asked for the results of the survey and we were told the results had not been compiled yet. In December of 2012 we again asked for the results. And in March, last month, again asked for the results. We were denied,” Kruger said. “I suggest that trust and respect doesn’t come from suppressing information and instead opening that information.”
STLCC-Wildwood Communications instructor Ellen McCloskey said no task force or movement has taken place since 2006.
“As far as we know, as the National Education Association (NEA), nothing has been done since the 2006 case study and no task force has been created for the issues,” McCloskey said. “We would like to request a date and a time for a task force to be established and to begin the process of working on this.”
Kruger said denying the staff and faculty of the results has created a “thorn” among staff and faculty.
“There’s one thing that has been sort of a thorn among staff and faculty, and you do have the power to do something about it immediately,” Kruger said. “In October of 2012 the college asked faculty and staff to participate in a survey about success or lack of success on the professional development day.”
Kruger suggested that the board release the results to begin rebuilding the relationship between administration and staff and faculty.
“I’d like you to understand that when people are expecting something and it takes seven months and they’re not responded to, they do feel a lack of respect from the organization and a lack of trust,” Kruger said. “I think you can do something about that immediately if you care do to so.”
