By Peter Schmidt
The full-time faculty at Ocean County College, a public two-year institution in Toms River, N.J., has overwhelmingly voted to level the same charges of impropriety against its president, Jon H. Larson, that officials there had threatened to sue union representatives for making.
A no-confidence resolution approved by the college’s faculty accuses Mr. Larson of violating contract laws, repeatedly bypassing competitive-bidding requirements, and firing a whistle-blower who tried to stop such illegal practices, echoing charges made by union representatives whom the college’s Board of Trustees subsequently threatened to sue for defamation.
The resolution also accuses Mr. Larson of a long list of flawed management practices and misplaced educational priorities, and charges that he has falsely claimed the existence of a financial emergency “to give himself extraordinary powers to fire employees” who are unionized and to bargain with their unions in bad faith.
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