College of Marshall Islands

Comments: In the 2007-2008 academic year the faculty office copier was broken for four months during which some faculty spent their own money to make classroom handouts at College of Marshall Islands. Air conditioning failed too often, sometimes for days in which offices or classrooms were....

Since College of Marshall Islands students are basically nice people from a "˜laid-back" culture, many teachers could deal with the poor infrastructure. But morale is lowered when only a fraction of large sums of money spent on consultants and administration junkets would ameliorate many of the poor conditions. College of Marshall Islands administration's strong-arm tactics make the situation worse ("my way or the highway"). For example, a survey at a College of Marshall Islands faculty senate meeting asked whether....