The long and short of it is that since the current president took over, HCC has been in a death spiral.
The president and her team has become more concerned with looking cool than actually listening to what staff and students want. She fills senior leadership with her friends, until they have a falling out and leave suddenly. Only the yes-men seem to stay. President is out of touch, going on about her trips and expensive Lego sets she gets to put together in her down time, while most of the staff can barely afford to live in Howard County. But they added a relax and recharge room that no one asked for and no one wants!
The president's team is full speed ahead on slicing classes length to 7 weeks, even though the staff and the students don't want it and any objective research shows that it will be a disaster for the student community (who are already talking about how hard it is to complete classes. Now imagine doing it in 7 weeks!) . I could go on and on for paragraphs about what a horrific mess the 7 week initiative is.
Any attempt at feedback about anything is met with "the door is right there".
Senior employees quit, often effective immediately, and no one knows why. Rumors are rampant because no one knows what's going on. Someone is there one day, gone the next.
No one knows who to contact, you finally figure it out, and find out they left two weeks ago and the position is unfilled. So much institutional knowledge has been lost because good people are quitting left and right
HR has become a campus-wide punch line.
It seems like the DEI committee is now a shell
