Opinion ID: 2276761
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: McMillan's Individual Claim

Text: McMillan claims that the elimination of her position and the diagnostic testing unit interferes with the statutory mandate and mission of the University as an open enrollment institution. The thrust of her argument is that, without the testing unit, students cannot be properly placed, and that as a result the open enrollment policy is frustrated. McMillan fails to recognize, however, that the RIF did not necessarily discontinue the tasks of administrative offices at the University simply because it abolished those offices or merged them into other administrative units. The services provided by many of those offices that were abolished were either transferred or reassigned to the surviving offices. Thus the scheduling and proctoring of the standardized tests was not terminated simply because the testing unit, and with it McMillan's position, were abolished. While a centralized testing center may (or may not) be the best administrative unit for screening incoming students, it is surely not the only possible unit. On questions like this [w]e refrain from substituting our judgment `in areas of expertise reserved for the agency.' District of Columbia v. Davis, 685 A.2d 389, 393 (D.C.1996) (citation omitted).