The foundation, which has more than $10 million in assets, raised approximately $750,000 in unrestricted funds in 2019 alone through weekend on-campus swap meets, where fresh produce, furniture and other wares are sold, but it spent only about a third of that amount on student scholarships that year. “To that allegation, I plead guilty as charged,” he said in the email. However, he said in an email to former colleagues at Moorpark College, where he previously served as president, that he believes the complaints were filed by people affiliated with the foundation after he repeatedly told foundation leaders that the foundation was “not fulfilling its purpose acceptably” because of its reticence to spend money and that the college would need a new fundraising arm if the foundation “does not change course.” Sanchez said he was stripped of his work email and hasn’t been told the specific charges against him.
Supporters of Sanchez say his criticisms of the foundation’s bureaucratic process for awarding scholarships and its funding priorities ruffled the feathers of some foundation leaders and prompted the Board of Trustees to take action against him. The District is unable to provide further information at this time due to the confidential nature of the investigation.” “The District will conduct a fair, thorough, and impartial investigation. “The District will not make any determinations pertaining to the allegations until it receives the investigation report,” the statement said. But his supporters, who see him as a defender of students, had plenty to say about it-and they point to tensions between Sanchez and the Oxnard College Foundation, the institution’s independent fundraising arm, as the reason for his being placed on leave.ĭistrict leaders said in a statement that independent attorneys are investigating two complaints of “unlawful harassment, including on the basis of sex and gender” and allegations that Sanchez “engaged in misconduct pertaining to the Oxnard College Foundation.”
Ventura County Community College District officials, who launched an independent investigation into complaints of harassment and misconduct against Sanchez, are not discussing the case. When Luis Sanchez, president of Oxnard College, was put on paid administrative leave earlier this month, the move elicited surprise and outrage from some employees and alumni.
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