and was subsequently fired. In place of Carr, Martin Hamilton, Mildred Henry, and Peter Gabel took over as "collaborative leadership". WASC issued a warning to the school in 1980, and placed the school on probation in 1984, citing concerns of the school's curriculum. The association re-affirmed the school's accreditation in 1985, but issued the school another warning in 1988 due to concerns regarding governance, faculty and finances. In 1996, some of the school's staff, including the faculty for the law school, humanities program, and poetry program, unionized, leading to modest economic gains, but no significant change regarding college governance. In 2002, Martin Hamilton took over as the school's president. The same year, WASC reported that the school did not have stable revenue, adequate financial controls, and suffered from "extremely serious management problems". WASC issued another warning in 2005, noting concerns about the college's long-term financial stability. In 2006, it was revealed that the school's founder, John Leary, sexually abused minors while president of Gonzaga University. Activism Throughout the college's history, groups of faculty, students, alumni and staff mounted challenges to the school's governance system, but these efforts failed to achieve lasting change. Numerous campaigns by faculty groups seeking reform, often regarding specific academic programs, had no more than limited, short-term influence. Several waves of students organized throughout the college's history, addressing a variety of issues, as well as a greater voice in the college's administration. Student efforts, which sometimes included complaints to WASC, were also unable to achieve lasting change. 2007 WASC investigation In June 2007, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) after years of acreditation, approvals and recertifications, launched an investigation into New College which obliquely alleged that the school suffered from poor record keeping, flawed financial controls, and inadequate curricula and that President Hamilton, was corrupt and engaged in a number of conflicts of interest. The report cited a number of incidents, such as one where a scammer posing as an international student requested class credits in exchange for a large financial gift which never materialized, and another where the school's administration couldn't explain course requirements and specific content of its "Pilot Hybrid Leadership in Urban Transformed Environments" program. As a result, the association put the school on probation. During the week of July 16, 2007, New College held a school-wide faculty meeting. The full-time faculty formed a Core Faculty Council, which met and gave a