College of the Redwoods will eliminate three full-time faculty positions at College of the Redwoods Mendocino Campus effective fall 2014.

Faculty members David Gonsalves, academic counselor and campus coordinator, Toby Green, professor of history and political science, and Richard Ries, professor of mathematics, were each notified by President Kathy Smith on Wednesday that their positions were being transferred to Eureka. Gonsalves, Green and Ries are the remaining on-campus, full-time faculty at CRMC. The remaining full-time off-site instructor for the Fine Wood Working program, Laura Mays, will remain.

In an email sent to CRMC faculty, Gonsalves said, "Suffice to say, it was a shock. I think the three of us are still very much digesting the news. I have no information as to what the district is planning for this campus. I will leave it to each of you to draw your own conclusions."

Barbara Rice, Mendocino Coast area trustee, said, "None of this has been discussed at the board level. This was a decision made solely by the administration."

The Redwoods Community College District board of trustees is meeting in special session this Saturday, Jan. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka, for a board workshop, which is "primarily for the board to become more informed about enrollment management activities and data pertaining to student success, discuss future trends affecting CR (distance education, changes in adult ed, non-credit, not-for-credit community education, dual enrollments, etc.) and evaluate the board's performance," said Paul DeMark, CR's director of communications and marketing.

DeMark said the Mendocino Coast campus is not specifically on this Saturday's agenda, but it will be on the Tuesday, Feb. 4 agenda, when the trustees meet in Eureka.