Teaching Politics

Returning to the subject of Mike, our FT DTLLS Course Tutor's dismissal.
We had received no communication about the situation from the powers that be by the end of Tuesday, and the majority of my classmates were wanting action. One or two urged caution and letting sleeping dogs lie - on the basis that they weren't keen to compromise their chances of employment at the college post graduation - but this incident (along with the ongoing administrative problems) had made this seem a less attractive idea to some, and they wanted answers.
So on Tuesday evening a substantial email, penned by Jay and me, outlining our grievances from the reasons and timing of Mike's dismissal, through the failure to let us know about the situation, to the detailed results of this action on our classwork, assignments and ongoing placement issues, was sent to the college Principal and the Vice Principal who is in charge of Adult Education. We had concerned responses within hours.
The next day we were told that Jen, a new tutor to the department (covering a maternity leave), though not to the college, would be teaching us for the rest of the term and that the VP would be talking to the class on Friday (the next time we would meet).
On Friday, Jen welcomed us and within minutes the VP arrived. Concern about our issues was forthcoming, but not an apology. The VP, it seemed, had allocated us a whole five minutes of his valuable time - but we kept him for over half an hour, making him go through the detail of our work problems and possible solutions - essentially creating a long To Do list for Jen and yet another rescheduling of assignment hand-in dates and course timetabling. This unenviable project may demonstrate to Jen the problems of the course design and organisation that Mike has been struggling with all term and which have caused his massive overload - in our view.
All queries about Mike's dismissal were deflected with the response that it would be unfair on Mike to discuss it with us; and interwoven throughout the discussion were supportive statements about Anna and implicit criticisms of Mike. We tried to make it clear that we did not think Mike to blame for the organisational inadequacies.
Eventually the VP managed to extract himself from our classroom, but said he would return next week to see how Jen was getting on with the rearrangements - not as full as response to our issues as we had hoped for.
However, we all took to Jen - her personality, experience, willingness to help and - when we actually got round to experiencing it - her teaching style and depth of knowledge. But the amount of work she now has to undertake (including all through the Christmas break, she told us) and the waste of our learning time in introducing ourselves to her, explaining what we have covered so far, and making more explicit the issues with our assignments etc - is highly detrimental to us as students, and frankly unacceptable. 
We wonder, while all this is going on for us, what is happening to Mike; whether he is looking for work elsewhere or appealing his dismissal. Even at this late stage, he would be welcomed back by his students.