Running off Dr. Corts

The loss of Dr. Thomas Corts as head of Alabama's much-troubled two-year college system is a tremendous blow to those who want to see the wrongs of the system corrected and improvements made.

The longtime president of Samford University was the picture of honesty and integrity. He truly wanted to correct many of the ills that are coming to light in the two-year system....misappropriation of funds, nepotism and more. Bishop State Community College in Mobile has become the poster child for wrongdoing and ineptness.

But Dr Corts' honesty crashed head-on with the status quo, exhibited by the State Board of Education.

When Dr. Corts suggsted that the two-year system might be too big for the state board to oversee, and maybe it should be operated by a separate board, it was the beginning of the end.

This area's representative on the state board had been especially critical of Dr. Corts.

Ella Bell, responding to Dr. Corts' acknowledgement that he serves at the pleasure of the board, said, "I would say my pleasure is spent. We hired him thinking he was the right man for this job and it just didn't work out."

Ms. Bell and the others who resisted Dr. Corts' reforms are wrong...he was the right man for the job.

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