By Craig Schneider
craig.schneider@newsday.com @Scraigo
Updated December 17, 2021 8:15 PM
The president of Nassau Community College resigned Friday, three days after faculty leaders submitted a "letter of discontent" to the school's Board of Trustees requesting his removal.
Jermaine Williams, president since July 2019, will become the president of Montgomery College in Maryland, also a community college.
Williams' time with the Nassau County college was marked with difficulty between himself and the faculty, said Faren Siminoff, president of the Nassau Community College Federation of Teachers.
"He was not a very responsive person. We spoke, but he didn't hear," Siminoff said in an interview.
The faculty leaders sent the letter to the Board of Trustees on Tuesday, asserting that, "The student leaders, faculty and staff have lost faith and trust in the college president. … We call for his immediate removal as Nassau Community College President."
The letter added, "Our constituents report that morale across campus is at the lowest point in decades."..
...The three-page letter said Williams' administration failed to correct health and safety issues such as mold infestation, air quality and unsafe passageways. It cited a textbook policy that left students without textbooks for weeks during the fall 2020 semester. And it questioned the administration's spending of millions of dollars in COVID/Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund money...
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
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Williams will be paid $320,000 annually on a five-year contract.
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Montgomery College consistently receives high rankings and national recognition:
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the only ranking that really means anything though, is the one from Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which the NCCFT suggested they were not in compliance because of Williams. MC unions sent their own "Letter of Concern".
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