Desert Sun 9/6 – Report calls for larger COD Palm Springs hospitality program but no learning hotel

…several employees who spoke at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting or submitted written comments, morale is flagging.  “You are currently dysfunctional and you’re hurting our college,” adjunct accounting professor Julie Rescigno told the board. “You do not respect or trust each other and you let the community see it. You do not accept any responsibility for…

Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. Friday’s article in The Desert Sun, with one trustee bashing another publicly with innuendo and crazy claims about convention centers and presidential suites, was about the last straw for me.

The tide is now shifting since the last couple of years that Superintendent/President, Dr. Martha Garcia took her position. Her lack of transparency and attempt to pause the Palm Springs Campus and Cathedral City Roadrunners program created an uproar in the community, along with a lawsuit filed against COD last September from the City of…

CATHEDRAL CITY — Rocio Conde, who has made this community her home for the past 18 years, is seeking the appointment to the Trustee Area 3 seat on The Desert Community College District Board of Trustees. The seat is vacant due to the resignation in March of Trustee Fred E. Jandt. Area 3 represents Palm…

PALM DESERT — Former College of the Desert Superintendent/President Joel L. Kinnamon announced in December 2020 that he was stepping down to spend time with his mom who he had learned probably had a year to live. He retired on March 31, 2021. Almost immediately, it appears wheels were put in motion to derail the COD campus…