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An aerial view of Green River College<\/p>\n
Zack Apiratitham, courtesy of Green River College<\/p>\n
Green River College trustees announced this week they voted to terminate President Suzanne Johnson\u2019s contract following a budget crisis that prompted campus wide cuts, KUOW<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n The college\u2019s budget deficit climbed to a projected $14.2\u00a0million last year, prompting Johnson to call for a hiring freeze and 5\u00a0percent cuts across every division, though a spokesperson told the NPR affiliate that Green River has since achieved a balanced budget. But Johnson was ousted amid the fallout when the board terminated her contract ahead of a scheduled no-confidence vote.<\/p>\n Faculty quoted in the report argued she was too slow to act on financial challenges and not transparent enough about the college\u2019s budget squeeze.<\/p>\n The radio station noted that the Board of Trustees did not specify why Johnson\u2019s contract was terminated and credited her with increasing bachelor\u2019s degree offerings and enrollment at the public community college in Washington state, which she led for nearly a decade. Trustees praised her for leading the college through the coronavirus pandemic with \u201ca steady hand while consistently demonstrating compassion, understanding, and care for our campus community.\u201d<\/p>\n The board appointed vice president of college relations, George Frasier, as interim president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An aerial view of Green River College Zack Apiratitham, courtesy of Green River College Green River College trustees announced this week they voted to terminate President Suzanne Johnson\u2019s contract following a budget crisis that prompted campus wide cuts, KUOW reported. The college\u2019s budget deficit climbed to a projected $14.2\u00a0million last year, prompting Johnson to call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[535,728,1059,3096,3219],"class_list":{"0":"post-43915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-green","10":"tag-president","11":"tag-removes","12":"tag-river"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}