What's your beef?  My understanding is your paths hardly crossed.

I was referring to anybody at any institution, not just USM. When someone says "all is well with SACS," they are within a comfort zone & nobody should be comfortable with that when so much is at stake.

I've no doubt that many folks are working very hard at USM to get the probation lifted & I am well aware of the sort of assistance that Dr. Sullivan provides. But nobody should get complacent or comfortable with it, even after the C&R Committee at SACS lifts the probation.

If folks get comfortable with it, they start to let things slide.

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Originally posted by: SACS Person
"I agree.  But, given circumstances, all is going well with SACS corrections at USM"

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If you mean they are on schedule & completing the work that the consultant laid out in a fashion that the consultant is comfortable with, OK, I see your point.

But everyone should remember that this is not an "episodic event" -- institutional effectiveness documentation has to be maintained & refined on a continual basis. People need to be used to it, but I hope they are never 100% comfortable with it.

By the time USM works through the probation & the next reaffirmation cycle, it is either going to have a very good institutional planning & assessment program or the largest concentration of insane people in the southeast!

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Originally posted by: In the Know
"Exline is not ambitious, according to my sources.   "

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Not to belabor the point, but I just returned home and was catching up on my late night reading.

 

“In the Know” you need to recheck your sources, Exline is extremely ambitious.

Answer me this: Why did she want to be Dean of the College of Health?  My sources in the CoH, which are quite reliable, indicate if she was NOT ambitious, she would have done her tour of duty as the acting dean (after the failed search she chaired) and not applied for the position when a new search was initiated.  In addition, if she was NOT ambitious, she would never have accepted her current position as assistant to the president in charge of accreditation, excreta, and returned to her faculty position.   

 

Don’t say she’s NOT ambitious.