From stability to who knows what
The fall semester at MCC ended peacefully and we all went home, blissfully ignorant of the sea change that would occur in the spring semester's first week. The first news we received during our all-campus meeting the week before classes started was that our president was leaving for a similar position at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, all the way across the state from us. The only surprising thing about the move was that it seemed to be more lateral than up, which is the direction most of thought he would go. College presidents as a whole are campus politicians and as such, are seldom short on ego or self-confidence and Michael Chipps wasn't either. That's why we were surprised at the parallel move.