It's not over, President Breuder

College of DuPage President Robert Breuder had this to say about months long charges about his lavish spending, and cynical politicking which prompted the state to cancel a $20 million building grant recently:

 "I think the time of the rhetoric is over. If you got something that you want to accuse the college of, accuse us and be done with it and then be prepared for the response to it. But you can't go on forever and ever just simply inferring, implying, suggesting, making comments that are full of misrepresentation of the facts, incomplete understanding of the facts. I mean, the time of just simply going up here and engaging in a plethora of rhetoric is over."

Those remarks are breathtaking in their arrogance of the serious charges being leveled at Breuder's conduct by the COD Faculty Association, several governmental watchdog groups, and now, because of those principled revelations, the COD community. Essentially, what Breuder is saying, is "There is nothing here so shut up and move on." Breuder can say that because his employer, the COD Board of Trustees, is failing to exercise their oversight responsibility to investigate the COD Faculty Association's "No Confidence Vote" and the substantial and serious charges of financial mismanagement.  Since Board members are the recipient of some of the alleged financial mismanagement, they have lost their credibility to properly exercise their oversight responsibility.

It is time for an impartial, outside source to investigate the avalanche of charges regarding President Breuder's COD governance. It is time for the COD Faculty's No Confidence Vote to be properly aired and resolved. And President Breuder should understand the wisdom of one Laurence "Yogi" Berra, not highly educated in college, but a genius in street smarts when he offered: "It ain't over till it's over."