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A Surprise Challenge (Inside Higher Ed, April 22, 2011)

A handful of conservative candidates are challenging a relatively apolitical group of incumbents for control of a rural Montana community college’s board of trustees, politicizing what is typically a sleepy and often uncontested spring election for the body.

Among other stances, the challengers hold that the college relies far too much on federal funding — one has gone as far as to argue that Pell Grants are unconstitutional — and that the college’s faculty and staff should not have the right to collectively bargain for their salary or benefits. The views and campaign rhetoric of the challengers have upset and angered the incumbents, many of whom have never faced electoral opposition. They are now fighting back by defending their records and painting their challengers as radicals who want to force their ideology on an unsuspecting community college in order to get ahead politically.

... when your first reaction to this story is, "I wonder if they have any open management positions." (Flathead Valley Community College is 30 minutes from my in-laws, so I'd be all set.)