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Date: Mar 14, 2005

RE: RE: RE: Thames SACS Violations

Date: Mar 14, 2005

A Visitor, I hear that this SACS principle is Ken Malone's favorate.

ASAS

3.7.1

Credential Guidelines:

d. Faculty teaching baccalaureate courses: doctor’s or master’s

degree in the teaching discipline or master’s degree with a concentration

in the teaching discipline (minimum of 18 graduate

semester hours in the teaching discipline). At least 25 percent

of the discipline course hours in each undergraduate major are

taught by faculty members holding the terminal degree usually

the earned doctorate in the discipline.

e. Faculty teaching graduate and post-baccalaureate course

work: earned doctorate/ terminal degree in the teaching discipline

or a related discipline.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

Bounce for new visitors.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

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Originally posted by: Bouncer
"Bounce for new visitors. "

And someone please note that Margaret Sullivan - a forceful personality who seems determined to get us through SACs depite oursevles -- is making $600 a day.

Why isn't this expense, made necessary by inept administration, considered by the administration supporters and the Board? And isn't this an example of yet another stupid expenditure of money at a time when the President is talking of Draconian cuts in the faculty if the university budget is cut? What about Angie Dvorak's salary as she moved over from VP of Research to head of the Research Foundation -- a job so important at the time it has not been filled since. What about the extra $140,000 to bring in Jack Hanberry? To add Mark Divorak to the payroll? To buy Albertson's? To buy the Vet's Hospital down on the Gulf Coast? To add a second Provost (since also a job now abolished). What about the pilot for the plane? Where is all of this money coming from? The 1.8 mil supposedly saved on reorganization has been used up several times by now.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

To that let me add the cost of the Glamser and Stringer affair:

The cost of prosecuting an empty case

The cost of mounting a hearing and of bringing in a high powered oformer supreme court judge.

The cost of the President's legal team.

The cost of paying for setting up audience space outside the courtroom

The cost of the settlement itself.

HOW MUCH MONEY CAN THIS ADMINISTRATION WASTE BEFORE THE IHL, THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AND OUR OWN CITIZENS OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI REALIZE THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS INCOMPETENT, WASTEFUL, AND CORRUPT?

Date: Mar 17, 2005

Kick to the top for newcomers.

Date: Mar 17, 2005

kick

Date: Mar 18, 2005

Kick

Date: Mar 19, 2005

Once more into the breach, dear friends. Kicking for newcomers.

Date: Mar 20, 2005

Kick

Date: Mar 20, 2005

HOW MUCH MONEY CAN THIS ADMINISTRATION WASTE BEFORE THE IHL, THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AND OUR OWN CITIZENS OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI REALIZE THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS INCOMPETENT, WASTEFUL, AND CORRUPT?

Quite a while. The Legislature is busy with their own self-inflicted mess. Although this is a low bar, many of them seem wiser than some other local citizens and are not going to get involved in this mess. Some local candidates for mayor will but this means using the word politician loosely (another low bar). Since members of the IHL are not elected, the citizens are effectively disenfranchised from the process. Unfortunately, some members of the IHL are there precisely because they couldn't get elected to the local school board.

Patience. If left unchecked incompetence on this scale will eventually cause even the IHL to move. Ethical challenges are even more interesting. One never knows when or which ethical challenge will cause the difficulty. Unlike incompetence, the participants don't control their own destiny. The cocktail of incompetence mixed with the other problem eventually will prove fatal.

IHL will eventually act. The only remaining question is whether they act on their own terms or their action is dictated by events. I personally prefer the latter as it may mean a "cleaner" ending. Some of SFTs supporters need to be allowed a way out. A "I had no idea!" event would be expedient for many. For the sake of the institution and the students, one can only hope for sooner rather than later.