We continue to follow the travails at Alamo Community College District.
This is developing into a case study of how not to use Deming TQM and end up in a mess instead of a constructive transition.
Clearly there is no buy in by the faculty who have not doubt been moved to anger by their respective Presidents. The Presidents do not want to lose their autonomy which they would and will fight this to the point of finding folks to run against the existing Board, once a Board member is defeated, no doubt the thinking is the rest of the Board will re assess its position.
Clearly the Board and the Chancellor have not read Machiavelli, look him up in wiki. He had some advice several hundred years ago on how to take over a conquered country.
Professor Elam 
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