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Date: Dec 5, 2005

Off Probation (SACS)

Date: Dec 5, 2005

if this is true then brace yourself for sft taking another run at the presidency of usm.

Date: Dec 5, 2005

kick!

Date: Dec 6, 2005

That Grimes is such a wordsmith. The last thing this Administration needs is reaffirmation - reaccreditation maybe, but not affirmation.

Date: Dec 6, 2005

lmnop wrote:

if this is true then brace yourself for sft taking another run at the presidency of usm.

It's not sft who will be running on this platform.

Date: Dec 6, 2005

Meteoric rise wrote:

lmnop wrote: if this is true then brace yourself for sft taking another run at the presidency of usm.

It's not sft who will be running on this platform.

Who then? Lassen? Grimes? Exline?

Date: Dec 6, 2005

Got News? wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Grimes" <Jay.Grimes@usm.edu>To: <betty.boney@usm.edu>Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:20 PMSubject: SACS> Betty - please send this to the deans library honors> > We are off probation w/ no add. recommendations. Official news release > tomorrow. Fasten your seatbelts for reaffirmation!> > D. Jay Grimes, Ph.D.> Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs> The University of Southern Mississippi> Hattiesburg Office: (601) 266-5002> Cell: (228) 806-7700> jay.grimes@usm.edu

What a pity! Rejoicing at getting off probation. Fasten your seatbelts? PUHLEEZE! What an idiot demonstration of LACK OF CLASS and insensitivity. But for the bunch in the dome and the head DOME GNOME we would not have been here in the first place. Oh, and while we are at it, are we still a doctoral extensive research institution? Or have we lost that distinctiveness also under Tiny Thames? And we are supposed to follow this kind of leadership?

Date: Dec 7, 2005

Given the timestamp on the email (which would've been 5:20 PM Atlanta time), Dr. Grimes fired that off within about 5 minutes of leaving the meeting with Dr. Lord. Given that level of immediacy, don't think the intent was to impress "donald" or any of the rest of us with quality prose.

USM is off probation. USM must also complete the regular reaffirmation process (I believe that's mainly the QEP) & host the on-site review committee. So yeah, seatbelts are in order.

It is good that USM is off probation. But there is no excuse for the university ever having been on probation to begin with. No excuse at all.

Cause for rejoicing? Somebody ask Don Cabana if inmates celebrate when they are released from prison...