After two years of Thames...

Date: May 22, 2004

After two years of Thames...

Date: May 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Tiger
"After two years of Thames, what is better, and what is worse? Is the Honors College better or worse? Is the student body better or worse? How is alumni giving going? Is the undergraduate program in your area stronger or weaker? Have resources for instruction increased in your area? Has your faculty grown? What emphasis areas have gotten better in your department? Are any worse or gone? Have we gained or lost ground relative to State and Ole Miss? Would you be more or less likely to recommend USM to a prospective freshman than you were three years ago? These are the kinds of questions that the IHL Board should have asked. What are your answers?"

Tiger, you seem to be a clear thinker. Your questions are good ones. They are non- emotional, they can be couched in operational terms, and they can be answered with hard data. Moreover, all of them can be quantified. Most of the data are already available. Any unavailable data should be easily obtainable. Is anybody out there???

Date: May 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: First Ant at the Picnic
"Tiger, you seem to be a clear thinker. Your questions are good ones. They are non- emotional, they can be couched in operational terms, and they can be answered with hard data. Moreover, all of them can be quantified. Most of the data are already available. Any unavailable data should be easily obtainable. Is anybody out there???"

Hmmm... Non-emotional, operationalized, quantifiable, data either already is being collected or easily could be... Tiger's questions cut straight to the marrow of what an "institutional effectiveness" program is supposed to be about. SACS is very big on institutional effectiveness & if you're not familiar with the concept, you should be.

USM has a self-study approaching, doth it not?