Jim CatanzaroRead moreChattanooga State President Jim Catanzaro ‘s resignation ends months of turmoil
The speculation may be whether he was pushed or made the decision himself, but Jim Catanzaro’s decision to retire as president of Chattanooga State Community College will allow the school a fresh start in its effort to better educate its students.
That’s not to say students weren’t uppermost in the current president’s mind, but his leadership decisions and actions in recent months had become a distraction to all the good going on at the school.
Catanzaro, 77, received no-confidence votes from the faculty Senate and from the full-time faculty in October and November, respectively, and was facing the results of investigations by the Tennessee Board of Regents and the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.
Although the results of the probes have not been released publicly, a negative report only would have increased the volume of a drumbeat for the president’s resignation. Whether Catanzaro got a whiff of what the probes might reveal and made the decision to retire ahead of their release is unknown.