{"id":14440,"date":"2016-05-06T23:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14440"},"modified":"2016-05-06T23:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:19:56","slug":"ac-faces-hiring-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14440","title":{"rendered":"AC faces hiring controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s get the full disclosure out of the way right off the top.<\/p>\n

I once worked on a freelance basis for Ellen Robertson Green, the newly former<\/em> head of communications and marketing at Amarillo College. I wrote a blog for Panhandle PBS, the AC-affiliated public television station. I consider her a friend.<\/p>\n

There. That’s out of the way.<\/p>\n

The news today that Green has resigned her position at AC — effective immediately — because of hiring violations is disturbing to me in the extreme.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/latest-news\/2016-05-06\/amarillo-college-vp-resigns-daughter-fired-amidst-nepotism-allegations?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Amarillo_Globe-News<\/a><\/p>\n

She quit and her daughter was fired from the college. Green’s daughter had worked as a content producer for Panhandle PBS’s website and, thus, reported directly to her mother — in violation of the school’s anti-nepotism policy.<\/p>\n

Here’s what troubles me: How did Green actually make that hire without her superiors not knowing about it? She\u00a0didn’t run the college. She didn’t operate in a vacuum. Moreover, the\u00a0college hires legal counsel to\u00a0protect the institution from getting entangled in precisely these kinds of issues.<\/p>\n

Here’s the policy. It looks quite clear to me.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.actx.edu\/president\/pagesmith\/80<\/a><\/p>\n

Green is a high-profile individual in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. She served on the Amarillo City Council until this past May, when she was defeated for re-election. I considered her to be a highly effective elected official and I wanted her to keep her council seat.<\/p>\n

How this matter got past the individuals who are in charge\u00a0<\/em>at Amarillo College escapes me.<\/p>\n

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Let’s get the full disclosure out of the way right off the top. I once worked on a freelance basis for Ellen Robertson Green, the newly former head of communications and marketing at Amarillo College. I wrote a blog for Panhandle PBS, the AC-affiliated public television station. I consider her a friend. There. That’s out … Continue reading AC faces hiring controversy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[295,3487],"class_list":["post-14440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-college","tag-panhandle-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14442,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14440\/revisions\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}