Thread: Kilgore College Hires Derrick Logozzo (Dallas College / DCCCD Richland Music Advisor Out of State Tuition Scam)

For the record the Big Band Jazz and Wind Symphony that have no instructors should have made. There are armies of adjuncts far more qualified that Derrick Logozzo to teach those classes. Derrick Logozzo's groups excluding the Steel Sounds percussion (which is not necessary for students to graduate and transfer) needn't have been cancelled the day before class started and scheduled for an October 8 week session.

There are so many professors there with doctorates and or Master's Degree and enormous performing experience with the top ensembles in the country. Why weren't they even asked to take over those groups? One instructor there led the Big Band Jazz before Derrick Logozzo stole it from him and the group was traveling and winning awards under his superb direction.

There is no excuse for the choir spot not to have been filled after the disgraced former director left on July 7th. Again, the choirs had incredible direction under an adjunct already there and the Eastfield and Brookhaven campuses have excellent well established programs.

The music programs across the college are in complete disarray and will have to be combined. Many students have been dumped from classes they need to graduate, had no way to totally redo their schedules a this juncture and will be trapped for another year as things as so poorly planned and managed. I also met music students that were in other programs and found out just a few days ago that they had to travel across the county to get a single class at the Richland Campus that they needed. Total chaos and disorganization.