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

0000397	HIST-1301	3
0000397	MATH-1332	3
0000397	MUEN-1122 Jazz Big Band	1
0000397	MUEN-1137 Wind Symphony	1
0000397	MUEN-1123 Jazz Combo	1
0000397	MUSI-9176 recital	1
0000397	MUSI-1311 Music Theory 1	3
0000397	MUSI-1116 Ear Training 1	1
0000397	MUSI-1181 Piano Class	1
0000397	MUAP-2253 Tuba	2
0000397	MUAP-2215 Electric Bass	2

19 hours in 11 classes. A Freshman should be taking only 1 ensemble and 1 lesson. I am in an ensemble with this student. We have rarely seen them in class this semester. This student skipped our first performance entirely and then promised to come back to class but never materialized. They just flounced up on stage for our final 3 concerts this week after not having rehearsed with us for weeks. I do not blame the student. Derrick Logozzo, the Music Department Head is still putting students into numerous classes that are far beyond what is on the degree plan. This student should be in 1 ensemble and 1 private lesson for only 4 semesters as that is all that will transfer, but as usual the students are being used to fill chairs.

No one could manage all these classes and lessons. How can they practice 3-4 hours a day on each of the 2 instruments, practice piano for a minimum of an hour a day and prepare all the music for 3 very demanding ensembles, handle the challenging Music Theory work plus handle core classes and likely employment as well? Yet another student being set up to fail by the Music Advisor from Purgatory. Any hours that are not on the degree plan at a 4 year university in Texas will be hours that will land a student in out of state tuition (30 over the written degree plan) and may cause them to exhaust their eligibility for financial aid. This horrific advising must be stopped by removing the errant advisors that are still doing this to trusting, innocent students.

Being a member of these groups where the attendance is abysmal is miserable. It is totally disrespectful to the professor and other students to skip class. This college is supposed to serve transfer capable students and prepare them to successfully finish a degree at a 4 year university as well as provide music opportunities to community members. No one is being served at Richland at this juncture. No real school tolerates students missing class without very good cause. Richland's Music Department is a total disaster. What was once the feeder school to UNT is now nothing but a disorganized mess. This department should never have been accredited and will not be able to keep its accreditation with this ongoing advising fiasco, students frequently cutting class and students who don't attend and do the work being passed to keep the chairs full. In music classes attendance is everything period. The DCCCD board needs to step in and appoint special counsel to get to the bottom of this and get this department leadership that will follow degree plans and do the right things for the students and taxpayers.

Edited to add that this student and more like them are right back in the same pile of music nonsense this spring 2020 thanks to Derrick Logozzo. This student has about 30% attendance in the ensemble we are both in and skipped the first performance. This student should have been tossed as a music major and failed for the piss poor attendance, but the name of the game at Richland College is filling chairs in the music department with anyone they can trick into signing up. The program is not legitimate.