‘A Closet Issue’ O’Banion’s report, “The Rogue Trustee: The Elephant In The Room,” which the consultants recommended Maricopa trustees read, is based on a survey of more than 50 community college CEOs from 16 states documents and the impact destructive trustees can have on an institution. Rogues trustees are appearing with great frequency in community college governing boards across the country, said O’Banion, calling it a “closet issue” for community colleges. Dr. John Roueche, director of Community College Leadership program at the University of Texas at Austin, agrees. “I think it’s more prevalent an issue that has been growing and developing in the last 10 years,” he said. In one of his surveys, 97 percent of about 550 respondents said they had known someone who had a rogue trustee and only a quarter reported never having one, O’Banion said. “The tragedy with elected or appointed trustees is we all know that one rotten apple can ruin the barrel and all it takes is one negative, caustic, cynical person to cause irreparable damage,” said Roueche, a former community college administrator. “They [Maricopa] now have a badly divided board and a number of individuals that are involved in self-serving, miscreant behavior that destroys the integrity of the district.”
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Maricopa Community Colleges Falls Victim to ‘Rogue Trustees’
by Arelis Hernandez , November 12, 2009
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