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Cossack

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Are there any people posting on this board that are knowledgeable about SACS accreditation. Specifically, when will the accreditation visit occur? I have been told it will be in 2005, but if that is true why is there not more activity relating to SACS. From conversations with a person at South Florida who was involved at the university level with SACS, it is not an automatic thing. Many of the visitation team will be faculty members, not administrators. Also included are librarians. Also the person from South Florida said that the accreditation group acts very independently of the university administration and do not meet with them in any informal way except for the first night for a brief social. After I explained many of the problems USM faces, particularly in the role of faculty governance the South Florida faculty member laughed. He said that if what I told him was true (it was a report of what was going on here), USM was dead in the water. Many schools that get separate accreditation such as education, business, nursing, and others, will lose their accreditation if we failed to maintain SACS accreditation. Given this possibility, why do we hear so little about preparing for SACS accreditation and how the situation currently existing at USM is reducing our chances?

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First Ant at the Picnic

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SACS is coming! SACS is coming! Are you ready USM?

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Invictus

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Originally posted by: Cossack
"Are there any people posting on this board that are knowledgeable about SACS accreditation. Specifically, when will the accreditation visit occur?"


SACS is in transition from an older form of self study based on the Criteria for Accreditation to a new process based on a somewhat less prescriptive (i.e., more vague) set of Principles of Accreditation. There are major changes, too, in the way the on-campus process is conducted.

Most institutions slated for accreditation review in the first half of this decade have been given 1-2 year stays of execution, er, extensions.

What your friend at South Florida says is true. If the shared governance situation at USM is as bad as it appears from this board (and other sources), USM's next SACS review is going to be, um, very interesting. And expensive to remediate.

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beentheredonethat

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NCATE is on line for fall. Shared governance is also an issue in those principles, but I'm sure that there is a level of "sharing" between education and administration. However, I understand that some of the folios that are to be presented are from faculty that are no longer with the university.

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Emma

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Unless the state of  Mississippi decides to cease feeling the need to be accredited on a national level - losing NCATE accreditation is about to be huge. Secondary programs (English Ed/History Ed/ ScienceEd/Math Ed) will do okay but the program that's about to be the hardest hit - Elementary Ed - is going to completely go down the tubes and the person with the biggest sum of "Merit" pay heads it up.    These people are NOT thinking. Elementary education is a crucial component of USM - always has been and will continue to be. Mitch Berman, what's your take on this????? Dana, if you're reading this Board (if you are smart you are reading this), what is your take on this?



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educator

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Originally posted by: beentheredonethat
"NCATE is on line for fall. Shared governance is also an issue in those principles, but I'm sure that there is a level of "sharing" between education and administration. However, I understand that some of the folios that are to be presented are from faculty that are no longer with the university. "


I am laughing right now about what you've said because it's SO TRUE. 



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Trapper John

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USM only has to look west to learn what to expect from SAC.  Univ. of La. at Monroe with budget problems and a president that was making one bad decision after another.  The cost, the removal of the president, the exodus of faculty, etc. all are the same as now at USM.  An extension for ULM.  Then look further west to Grambling State Univ. the same happened.  Both had central admin. problems, faculty unrest, questionable admin. decisions.......now the SAC's team is headed this way.  Trapper John

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