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Central Community College Trustees resigns.


FORT DODGE, Iowa Fort Dodge is a city and county seat of Webster County, Iowa, United States, situated on the Des Moines River. The population was 25,136 at the 2000 census. Fort Dodge is a major commercial center for North Central and Northwest Iowa. It is located on U.S. Routes 20 and 169.  -- The president of the Iowa Central Community College Iowa Central Community College is a community college located in North Central Iowa. Iowa Central's main campus is located in Fort Dodge, Iowa. It also has small campuses in Webster City, and Storm Lake.  board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , resigned recently because of philosophical disagreements.

"I just feel that the college is moving in a different direction from what I had in mind," said Carl Larson.

Larson said his resignation was prompted mostly by his disagreements about the direction of the school.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation visited the Iowa Central campus nine months ago and subpoenaed records and interviewed school officials about possible transcript fraud.

Larson said he had been frustrated frus·trate  
tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates
1.
a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart:
 by the length of the criminal investigation and his inability to get answers to questions about the allegations. He declined to criticize crit·i·cize  
v. crit·i·cized, crit·i·ciz·ing, crit·i·ciz·es

v.tr.
1. To find fault with: criticized the decision as unrealistic. See Usage Note at critique.
 the school's handling of the transcript scandal, but he said a full explanation hadn't been provided.

Former Iowa Central football player B.J Van Briesen has acknowledged that he was given academic credit by school officials for three independent study courses befor
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Title Annotation:Iowa Central Community College
Publication:Community College Week
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U4IA
Date:Oct 15, 2001
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