Report describes low faculty morale at Spartanburg Community College, where professors have lost their voice in school policy and have emails monitored.
The investigations found that Spartanburg Community College disbanded its Faculty Senate and surveilled faculty members, then lied about it to media outlets and South Carolina’s inspector general. Administrators at Spartanburg Community College are under public scrutiny after they disbanded the college’s decade-old Faculty Senate in the spring, replaced it with a new governing body and took a number of ethically questionable steps, prompting investigations by state law enforcement authorities and a national faculty advocacy association.
Spartanburg Community College officials lied to the public, the media and state investigators as part of an inquest into how college leadership responded to a rift that had formed between some school faculty and the school administration.
The office of South Carolina’s Inspector General is just one of several groups investigating Spartanburg Community College after varied faculty complaints.