The contracts of a pair of Allen County Community College instructors will not be renewed for the 2010-11 academic year.
College trustees, in an adjourned meeting Wednesday, announced they will not renew the contracts of music instructor Ed Lammers and computer science instructor Regena Lance.
The college had until May 21 to notify instructors whether their contracts were going to be renewed. The deadline typically is May 1 but had been pushed back because the Kansas Legislature has yet to develop the state’s budget — and education funding levels — for the next fiscal year.
College President John Masterson noted that trustees were leery of waiting past May 1 because the change had yet to be placed into the state’s law registry earlier this week. The change was published this morning.
“We still thought that was cutting it close, so we went ahead with the meeting,” Masterson said.
Neither Lammers nor Lance were tenured instructors. Masterson said trustees have not decided whether those positions would be refilled.
In other personnel matters, trustees hired Marcus Hicks as head coach for the women’s basketball team. Hicks replaces Andy Hamilton who left his post earlier this semester. Hicks’ contract begins May 17.
Jessica Peters, volleyball coach, was appointed to replace Hamilton as assistant athletics director.
Trustees also hired Charles Frisco as an assistant soccer coach and residence hall director. His contract begins in August.
Trustees offered tenure to English instructor Christina Sewell and announced that contracts would be offered to all other full-time instructors whose contracts already had not been dealt with.
TRUSTEES, meeting in an executive session, rejected appeals from a pair of students regarding disciplinary matters. The students were not identified.
The next trustees meeting is 6 p.m. May 6. The public is invited.
