LEADERSHIP
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IRSC at 60
DESIGN BUILD – CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT – CONTRACTING
Helping to enhance our community, One project at a time.
Thank you Dr. Massey for making IRSC what it is today. Congratulations on your retirement!
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INTO THE FUTURE
Massey meets regularly with various work groups and
departments across the college, always planning for the future.
The president, who shows no signs of slowing down in his last
year, says that IRSC will continue to center on what is good for
students and what is good for the community and its economy.
Its goals will continue to be flexible enough to adapt to
unexpected changes in the area’s needs so local businesses
and public and private institutions get employees who will
thrive. Focusing on student needs will mean making them
comfortable and able to ask for help from IRSC staff. Teachers
will also get help to overcome any hurdles to their academic
and life successes, be they personal or institutional.
That sounds like a lot. But for IRSC to succeed after Massey
is gone, the college needs to do all that. Focus on students.
Focus on the needs of the community. Develop principles to
thrive by.
As for the future, Massey said he will go into consultancy.
He wants to use what he has learned about running a large,
highly successful institution that has many of the same needs
as a living body, and help others achieve what has been accomplished
at Indian River State College. Expect him to do
that in his affable, empathetic manner as he helps others help
themselves in laying the groundwork for the success of educational
institutions and communities for generations to come.
Dr. Massey celebrates with the blue team at the college’s annual blue-gold
volleyball game in which he serves as honorary coach of the blue team.
About the Writer
Bernie Woodall is a freelance journalist who began his
41-year reporting career at the IRCC student newspaper
and graduated from IRCC with an associate degree
in 1977. He later worked for The News-Tribune
in Fort Pierce and several other newspapers. He was a
reporter for Reuters news agency for 21 years.
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