For the past two years, North Idaho College trustees, who are backed by the county’s Republican Party, have denounced liberal “indoctrination” by the college faculty and vowed to “Make NIC Great Again.” The MAGA-fication of North Idaho College:
The North Idaho College Campus in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Feb. 22, 2023.
The injection of such sweeping political aims into the routine administration of a community college of 4,600 students, one better known locally for its technical training programs than the politics of its faculty, has devolved into a full-blown crisis. The school has faced lawsuits from two of the five presidents it has had since the start of the previous school year.
What’s different about North Idaho College, however, is that local voters have more directly driven the change — and the results have been less ideological overhaul than organizational chaos. Brent Regan, the committee’s chair, argues the endorsements are no different from those of the local Rotary Club or newspaper.
“They were in the process of dismantling the institution,” said Tony Stewart, secretary of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, which drafted the complaint. The turnover has been cited by the accreditation body, along with several votes of no confidence in the trustees from the college faculty and student government, as a source of its concern. Sonny Ramaswamy, the commission president, declined to discuss the accreditation review, citing discussions with the school.
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