Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:35 PM CDT
Lake Land hires Hull as new VP for academics
By HERB MEEKER, Staff Writer
hmeeker@jg-tc.com
MATTOON — A Rend Lake College official has been named Lake Land College vice president for academic affairs.
James Hull has been vice president of instruction at Rend Lake in Ina since 2002. He has also taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Southeastern Illinois College at Harrisburg.
The vote was unanimous with roll call answered by board Chairwoman Doris Reynolds and trustees Kent Metzger, Tom Niebrugge, Mike Sullivan, Leland Glazebrook, Marianne Morgan and student trustee Brittany
Hosselton.
Hull replaces interim Vice President Joe Hanley, who took that position with Scott Lensink’s appointment as interim college president last summer.
Also at its Monday meeting, the board hired Karla A. Hardiek and Nicole L. Jones as nursing instructors in the Allied Health Division. Kim Davis was hired as an education instructor and coordinator of education programs.
Beefing up campus security through installation of new door access systems was also approved. Last fall, a campus security drill showed one weakness involved the inability to lockdown the campus by requiring employees to enter each building with keys or allen wrenches.
The lockdowns are designed to prevent a shooter or attacker from entering other buildings to injure more people after an initial incident.
Contracts were awarded to Commercial Electric of Mattoon for electrical equipment and installation at a cost of $37,265, and for door hardware and installation to Grunloh Construction of Effingham at a cost of $74,000.
The door security work will coincide with energy savings contract work at the Vocation Technology Building and Field House. The college will budget for installation of the system on two buildings per year until completion.
In other personnel business, the trustees approved the Fiscal Year 2009 contract between the college and Illinois Department of Corrections for 80 full-time faculty and staff for vocational education programs at Danville, Dixon, Dwight, Graham, Southwestern Illinois, Taylorville, Vandalia and Western Illinois correctional centers.
Funding of $1,657,778 comes from the Illinois Community College Board and more than $3.3 million from the Department of Corrections. Lake Land will receive $289,944 for administration of the contracts.
However, state funding constraints might discontinue some of the DOC programs, so the board approved issuing letters of termination to employees connected with Corrections contracts. This practice has been necessary over the last few years.
“No one in this administration in Springfield is too interested in Department of Corrections,” said Lensink. “They do not see the potential payback of education for people in Corrections. It helps them become productive after they serve their sentences.”
In other business, the college hired Bushue Human Resources of Effingham as the commercial insurance consultant for the college at a rate of $4,700 per year. The rate will then increase to $4,850 and then $4,950 over the next two years. A $500 fee will be added each time the college bids for insurance.
The college bids for insurance once every three years.
Contact Herb Meeker at hmeeker@jg-tc.com or 238-6869.
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krusayda wrote on May 14, 2008 12:57 PM: