Jim CatanzaroEven if Jim Catanzaro’s supporters don’t think two no-confidence faculty votes and his controversial hiring of a senior executive assistant to extend Chattanooga State Community College’s partnership with a college in Barbados (where he loves to vacation) are enough to get him sacked, then perhaps his own sloppiness with a calendar will seal the deal.
After all, what does it say for his management skills that Chatt State on Aug. 8 partnered with the University of West Indies (in Barbados) for a student and faculty exchange program, then on Aug. 21 handled paperwork to get a visa for a woman he met on vacation there — Lisa Haynes — to manage that program, even before she and two other finalists interviewed for the position on Aug. 23?
Then you might note that with miraculous speed, Catanzaro sent Haynes a formal letter six days later offering her the job for $90,000. (She later was promoted to chief innovations officer and raised to $108,000.)
But, seriously, forget his sloppiness with covering his tracks on a calendar (and his own tailoring of a narrowly written job description for Haynes’ position requiring a person with knowledge of the educational systems of the Caribbean and British Commonwealth nations).
Forget the fact that Haynes didn’t even have a college degree or a complete and validated transcript when she was hired.