Green, however, told The Times-Union that he had used “vacation time and off hours to conduct all his business with Essex County College and his work there did not affect his work for. Corby, a spokesman for Florida State College, told Inside Higher Ed that the matter was “under administrative review” and that neither Green nor Wallace would comment until that review was completed. The newspaper also noted that, between November and April 8, Essex had paid Green about $46,000, at a rate of $130 an hour. Last November, a month after Green took the consulting job at Essex, he received a 30 percent pay raise at Florida State College to “bring his salary in line with the state average” of $166,000, The Times-Union reported. The matter has stirred faculty concern at both institutions, and higher education legal experts say the matter is disconcerting. Now, officials at Florida State College are reviewing the matter to ensure that no employment or conflict of interest rules were broken. The Florida Times-Union broke the story Sunday about the strange case of Green’s work at the two community colleges, which are nearly 1,000 miles apart. What’s more, Steven Wallace, president at Florida State College and Green’s immediate supervisor, did not know about Green’s other job until two weeks ago, when someone sent him a story from a Newark newspaper that took note of Green’s hiring. He is also, concurrently, the acting senior vice president of academic affairs at Essex County College, in New Jersey, where he has been working 15-20 hours a week as a consultant since last October.
Donald Green is executive vice president of instruction and student services at Florida State College at Jacksonville, where he has worked since 1998.