Fall term enrollment was up in the accounting program and classes were full. It seemed Lana

was off to a good start. She fit in well with faculty members and had positive student

evaluations. Everyone seemed pleased, except Evan. He claimed Lana's high student appraisals

were because students knew she was $"$an easy A$"$ and not from good teaching. He changed her

winter term class schedule, giving her night classes followed by early morning classes the next

day. He seldom visited other instructors' classes, but monitored Lana's lectures constantly. Lana

told Mary, the department chair, that his frequent visits to her classes made her nervous and were

disruptive. He would come into her class in the middle of a lecture, ask inappropriate questions

and then walk out before class was over. It happened so often that even students were getting

annoyed. After class, Evan would send Lana an e$-$mail criticizing her teaching, but when she

asked to talk to him about it$,$ he would never schedule an appointment. Some days he would stop

by her office just to ask her what she was doing, or he would stop by when she wasn't scheduled

to be there and the next day he would ask her where she had been.

During tax season, Lana worked part$-$time for a CPA firm, as did most of the other accounting

instructors. This raised even more ire from Evan. He told her she was off campus too much and

asked her to give him a weekly schedule every Monday morning so he would know where she

was. No other faculty was required to turn in a schedule. At the end of winter term, Evan set up

appointments to meet with students who had not done well in Lana's classes. He asked them to

critique her teaching.

"Why doesn't he talk to my $\text{'}$A$\text{'}$ students?" Lana asked Mary. "I think he's trying to drum me out

of here," she said tearfully. "I feel so guilty for my family. They changed their lives so we could

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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LANA?

Once the rumor mill in the business department at Youngstown Community College got wind

that the dean, Evan Comstock, wanted to move David into the faculty position vacated by Art's

retirement, it was all anyone could talk about. No one was surprised at Evan's intention because

he had taken David under his wing two years ago when David was hired as the tutor in the

ccounting lab. Evan and David had become good friends since, and there had been previous

instances of favoritism that left everyone feeling uneasy, but this was really too much.

The problem was that Art's position required an MBA in accounting, and David had only a

bachelor's degree. Although David was enrolled in an MBA program at State University, he

wouldn't be finished for at least another year. Until then, he would only be qualified to teach

professional and technical accounting courses and none of the classes that transfer to State. The

rest of the accounting faculty would have to pick up the slack until David finished his MBA. It

would increase everyone's workload and create a scheduling nightmare. While everyone liked

David and agreed he was a great tutor, there was a lot of grumbling.

They didn't have to grumble for long. Evan had rewritten Art's job description to ensure that

David would qualify. When the new, watered$-$down job description landed on vice president

Schilling's desk, he called Evan immediately. Schilling was never one to mince words. "Evan,

what are you thinking over there?" he shouted, and that was the end of Evan's plan for David.

The position still had to be filled, so HR conducted the recruitment process, and a selection

committee was formed consisting of Evan, the department chair, two additional faculty members

and an administrator from another department. The recruitment process generated a number of

good applicants, and the committee finally narrowed down the pool to five well$-$qualified

candidates to interview. Everyone on the committee thought the interviews went well, but, of

course, Evan didn't like any of the candidates. There was much discussion and second interviews

with two candidates until Evan reluctantly agreed to hire Lana.

Lana had several years of part$-$time teaching experience and had been a practicing CPA for a

number of years. She had the required MBA and was eager to transition out of accounting and

into full$-$time teaching. She was scheduled to start in the fall because she was currently living in

a small town $200$ miles south of Youngstown. She immediately started shopping for a house in

the Youngstown community and planned to move her family during the summer break