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Faculty and staff press Howard County delegation to back transparency, anonymous surveys and trustee training at HCC
Summary
Multiple Howard Community College faculty and staff testified in support of HOCO 1-25 and related amendments seeking restored anonymous employee surveys, routine public comment at trustee meetings, external trustee training and greater transparency after recent HR shakeups and contract outsourcing.
Faculty, staff and union representatives told the Howard County delegation that Howard Community College (HCC) needs statutory changes to restore transparency, protect employee feedback and strengthen trustee oversight.
Multiple witnesses — including associate professors, division chairs and union organizers — supported HOCO 1-25 with amendments that would require the HCC Board of Trustees to provide routine public comment periods at meetings, to make meeting recordings and materials publicly available, to undertake periodic external trustee training, and to restore an anonymous employee survey (the former QUEST survey) used to gather candid feedback.
“Transparency and accountability are the foundation of good governance,” Roberta Brown, an…
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