Dive Brief:

• The faculty senate at Blinn College, a 16,000-student community college in Texas, passed a vote of no confidence in the district president and vice president of instruction.
• The vote — “the most damning action the body can take,” according to the TheEagle.com — marked frustration with sweeping administrative changes at the four-campus college.
• Much of the conflict dates back to November 2012, when the Blinn board created six dean positions to oversee academic divisions across college's campuses. Previously, there had been no deans at the college.

Dive Insight:

According to TheEagle.com, the deans took over administrative duties from 14 division chairs and 20 assistant division chairs at the campus level. The division positions were phased out, and decisions on scheduling, hiring, firing, and budgeting were made by full-time administrators instead, shifting the decision-making to the district level instead of the campus level.