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During an executive session, James Grassham offered a motion for Cooper's termination, which was seconded by Bill Hollida. The vote was unanimous.
After that vote, Randy Winston moved that Joe Rozman be named interim president. It was seconded by Marion Tibbs and approved by the board.
Rozman serves as vice president for student affairs and information technology. He will serve as interim president until a new president is hired, as decided by the board. Rozman's salary and term length is to be determined.
At the regularly scheduled meeting last month the board approved chairman Steve Cookson's presidential search committee of 16 community leaders representing a broad spectrum of the Three Rivers' taxing district to search for a new college president. The original plan was to stop accepting applications for the position on July 1, but Cookson said this morning the deadline may need to be extended for a couple of weeks.
Cooper will be placed on administrative leave immediately for 30 days with pay, according to the minutes from the meeting.
He had plans to retire in August of next year.
Cooper has been president of Three Rivers since 1997.
Before that he was president at Suffolk Community College in Selden, N.Y.
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And the reason for his termination was? Who is the editor of the Missourian, and why does he have such an amateurish newspaper? It's emabarassing that this is the best our region can do. The Dunklin County paper even does a better job than the Missourian.
Heye, it didn't say why they fired him in the DAR either. So it isn't this papers fault. I was wondering the same thing though. I do know there have been a lot of changes at the college, because of the way students and staff were treated. This may have something to do with that. But then I'm guessing, because it wasn't printed here either.
When you print something like this and you don't say a word about the reason it happens it leaves it up to our imaginations to come up with a reason. This leads to gossip and the possibility of causing real harm. If you don't know why he was fired, SAY SO. At least you don't end up looking like you forgot the most important part of the article!
Hey SEMO board of regents. Look what 3 Rivers did. They got guts and did what they had to do. Now you should do what you should have done along time ago. I don't mean another contract extension!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's the reason why: http://semissourian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/NEWS01/856498123