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Collin College candidates address concerns of free speech, retaliation
Three incumbents are up for reelection on Saturday.
Three seats are up for grabs in Collin College s Board of Trustees and candidates are having to address controversies that have pulled national attention to the school.(
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Ongoing controversies at Collin College could impact Saturday’s election where longtime trustees are aiming to keep their seats on the board.
The growing college system has made national headlines over allegations of retaliation and its response to the pandemic. Protestors have attended board meetings after administrators let go three women who criticized the school’s COVID-19 response.
Suzanne Jones never in a million years would have imagined she’d be a key player in a widely publicized labor struggle. Then again, it’s been a crazy couple of months for her and other Collin College professors.
The school let go Jones, an education professor, suddenly in January. She s one of four female educators whose contracts the school terminated this semester. Along with advocating for faculty input in the college’s COVID-19 plans, Jones had helped create a local chapter of the Texas Faculty Association, a non-collective bargaining union. The college indicated both were reasons for her nonrenewal.
KERA News Five of six Collin College board candidates and moderator joined this week s election forum on zoom. The sixth participant participated by phone.
The incumbents in the races for the Collin College Board of Trustees back school president Neil Matkin, who is facing a backlash for terminating several professors.
In Collin County, pandemic policies have energized a political contest that seldom gets a lot of attention.
Three of the nine seats on the Collin College board of trustees are up for grabs in the May 1 election.
The incumbents in those races back school president Neil Matkin, who is under fire for terminating several professors. The professors say it s because they publicly opposed reopening the school last fall, mid-pandemic, with in-person classes.
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