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Controversy still grips Roxbury Community College

Just three months after Roxbury Community College opened in 1973, realizing a long-held dream of the city’s black community, it was already in crisis mode. The president was fired without explanation, casting the campus into turmoil and exposing rifts between college and community leaders.

The early dissension was a sign of things to come. Born in controversy, the two-year institution has never escaped it for long.

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shut it down. the place is a disaster. what a waste of taxpayers funds we can ill afford.

If I recall, a couple years ago a consortium of local employers - including members of our booming biotechnology industry - approached Roxbury Kommunity Kollige with an exciting proposal for an organized internship program exclusively for their students, that would lead directly to offers for entry-level employment for interns that perform well...and President Gomes basically kicked them out of his office. So they took their program to Bunker Hill, where it's been incredibly successful. Gomes should have been terminated the day that story hit the press. His "supporters" should hitch their wagon to a better train. This man is a cancer on that school. I believe that to this day he still refuses to answer questions about why he wouldn't let his students take part in that exciting recruiting program, but I don't think it even matters...as far as I'm concerned, there is no legitimate answer. I can't think of any possible explanation he could offer that would be acceptable.

Yep, we have confirmation: http://articles.boston.com/2012-05-07/metro/31598950_1_gomes-job-training-program-monthly-meetings. Gomes wouldn't even answer their phonecalls. When the Governor's office ordered him to meet with them, he kept them waiting for 45 minutes and then told them they could take a hike, which they did...all the way to Bunker Hill. And BHCC says RCC was insane to pass on the program. And Gomes is refusing calls from reporters that would like to ask him about that curious decision. Why is Gomes still there?

Gomes resigned today. Good riddance.