[Vision2020] Community College in Pullman

[Ron Force]

The long sad story:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/jan/31/100-million-software-system-for-community-colleges/

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> The original story mentioned another problem (or set of problems)
> concerning a $100 million software system that does not work correctly.
>
> Notwithstanding that large software development projects occasionally can
> develop more problems than software, it is also the case that $100 million
> dollars is a very large sum of money for any software system that a
> community college might need for its operations.  I am not familiar with
> the details of this particular SFCC software project, but my initial
> impression is that whatever software it is that the college needs, the
> financial charges for it are much too large.  This project needs to be
> reviewed from original concept to its present status, and at least one of
> the review standards should include the concept of financial clawback, that
> is, returning money from the vendor to the college.
>
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> Ken
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> On 5/14/2016 10:33 AM, Rose Huskey wrote:
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> This is appalling on many levels.  Naturally the concerns of the students
> are a high priority, but the impact on staff and faculty is devastating.
> Ms. Gulickson should be placed on an unpaid leave of absence until the
> issue is sorted out by professionals (which  Ms. Gulickson clearly is
> not).
>
> Rose Huskey
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> *From:* vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [
> mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com <vision2020-bounces at moscow.com>] *On
> Behalf Of *rhayes at frontier.com
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 14, 2016 6:21 AM
> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Subject:* [Vision2020] Community College in Pullman
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>
> President Janet Gulickson dropped a bomb on the students, staff, and
> faculty of the Pullman campus last week. At a social on the Pullman campus
> Gulickson blurted out that she intended to close the branch by fall. She
> brought the faculty to tears telling them that they would be not offered
> jobs at main campus. She panicked students who planned on attending Pullman
> SFCC in the fall because financial aid deadlines have passed and attending
> another college would now be impossible. At this social Gulickson did not
> and could not provide any numbers demonstrating how citing how closing the
> Pullman Campus would help with the SFCC financial deficit. She blamed
> software glitches, declining enrollment (not so in Pullman), and shrinking
> state funding as reasons behind her decision to close Pullman. Of course,
> she took no responsibility for SFCC's financial problems, nor did she offer
> any sort of solution to the students', staff or faculty's plight. Her
> decision to close Pullman is a result of poor fiscal planning bordering on
> malfeasance. The CCS Board of Directors should look carefully at the
> actions and performance of Gulickson, and indeed chancellor Christine
> Johnson to whom she reports.
>
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> Roger Hayes
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