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A Kootenai County District Court Judge upheld an earlier decision that requires the college to keep Nick Swayne as President of the Institution for the remainder of a lawsuit he filed against the college’s board of trustees
Attorneys representing North Idaho College President Nick Swayne have asked the court to grant him reinstatement without going to trial. Last Friday, Swayne’s legal counsel filed a motion for summary judgement in his lawsuit, which alleges that three NIC trustees violated the terms of his employment agreement when they placed him on administrative leave for no disciplinary reason in December 2022.
A court trial is currently scheduled to begin Oct. 16.
“This was an attempted de facto termination of Dr. Swayne and it was not done in good faith.”
With a decision about North Idaho College’s accreditation on the horizon and board dysfunction continuing, one trustee has asked the Idaho State Board of Education to intervene in the hopes of saving NIC.