Monroe Community College exemplifies the academic success that all 2-year schools

should aim to accomplish as an institution. As one of the premier colleges in the country, our
school has placed at the top of many national rankings. It is President Flynn’s dedication to
doing what was always in the best interest of the students, the faculty, the administration, as well
as the community as a whole. This is the type of leadership that is necessary for MCC to
maintain our prestigious ranking and to continue making forward progress as an institution. The
last thing we need is a new president who is only concerned with doing what is in the best
interest of their respective political party.

As a student of MCC and a taxpayer of Monroe County, I would be offended and

outraged if the chosen president was not one that had any higher education administration
experience, which is outlined as a sought quality for any prospective president in §3 of the
SUNY Guidelines for Presidential Searches for Community Colleges. I demand that the
prospective president show a commitment to the mission of higher education as well as the
specific mission to this college. MCC is the acme of Public Education and should not be
compromised by political agendas, the control of over $100 million of Monroe County
taxpayer’s money or dissolved into silos by a businessman taking the reins.

Both SCAA (Special Committee on Administrative Affairs) and PSAC (Presidential

Search Advisory Committee) were allowed by the board of trustees to thoroughly interview,
review and narrow down the pool of potential candidates based on the criteria set in place by the
board itself. The two candidates that the board amended to add to the list of finalists (Bill Smith
and Dennis Kessler) had already gone through the search process and both committees did not
see either as fit to be a potential finalist candidate. Why would the board of trustees allocate
school funds to this intensive search process if the six political puppets on the board were simply
going to ignore the committee’s recommendations? Twenty eight speakers and over three
hundred other spectators expressed a unanimous agreement that Bill Smith and Dennis Kessler
should not be added to the list of finalists. However, the majority of the board (Richard Guon,
Kenneth Goode, Ilene Flaum, Richard Mackey, John Parrinello, and Wayne Zyra) do not believe
in democracy, for our pleas to uphold a fair selection process were completely disregarded. The
former chair Lori Van Dusen said that by adding the two names to the finalist pool would be a
“breach in my fiduciary responsibility and responsibility to the college.”

Locality and political affiliation exceeds higher education administration experience as

demonstrated by the six who voted for the amendment. Red flags were also raised in February
when the board went into Executive Session and former chair Van Dusen stepped down to be
immediately replaced by Guon. During this particular board meeting, two county lawyers were
present who had never attended previous board meetings and have not since, making it quite
apparent that local politics are after the control of MCC’s budget. The new chair Guon is
treasurer of the Monroe County Water Authority, which conveniently happens to be where
County Executive Maggie Brook’s husband, Rob Wiesner, is the director of security. Maggie
your blatant nepotism and ruthless appetite for complete control of the County Budget is
compromising one of the premier institutions that Monroe County has to offer.
 MCC needs more leaders like David Ladwig, Michael Nuccitelli, Lori Van Dusen and
Richard Warshof to maintain the integrity of our superior institution. For more information on
how to speak out against this injustice please visit www.dotherightthingmcc.org.

Concerned student,

Devin Lynch