Nepotism at North Metro Technical College

Being a college president has many burdens and one Georgia chief executive got an added one last week: dismissing his wife.
Steve Dougherty, president of North Metro Technical College, had to authorize the dismissal of his wife, Kate, who had held a part-time job at the college for about a year, helping with its “welfare to work” programs.
Kate Dougherty didn’t do anything wrong. But Georgia’s Department of Technical and Adult Education recently experienced a nepotism scandal. A senior official was forced to quit for hiring her sister’s boyfriend for a $72,000-a-year job for which he lacked qualifications, and then firing him when the relationship didn’t last.
Michael F. Vollmer, commissioner of the department, then set up new anti-nepotism rules, and he’s serious about them.

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