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Date: Mar 2, 2006

NCATE Evaluation Rumor

Date: Mar 2, 2006

some of your post is not clear, but the NCATE visiting team comes to campus the week before the SACS team. I think this would be the last week in March (for NCATE). so if your colleague believes the NCATE team has already visited, then they are mistaken.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

The visit is the minor part. The SAP reports really are the heart of the NCATE process. These could have been returned.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Coast Watcher wrote:

Heard from a colleague that at a department meeting (not my department) last month the chair had told folks that the NCATE Review had gone very badly wrong over the entire teacher teaching part of the university. Word was that USM had 18 months to resubmit all documents to NCATE to redeem what my source said was literally a "failure." Did I miss this? Has anyone heard anything about this? I can't believe my source really heard what s/he thought.

and some of you are just waiting for failure at any junction. SO SAD.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

what dither wrote:

and some of you are just waiting for failure at any junction. SO SAD.

With good reason, dearie.

However, that wasn't the sense of Coast Watcher's post. It was a sincere legitimate question, because s/he couldn't believe his or her ears.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Little old lady wrote:

what dither wrote:

and some of you are just waiting for failure at any junction. SO SAD.

With good reason, dearie.

However, that wasn't the sense of Coast Watcher's post. It was a sincere legitimate question, because s/he couldn't believe his or her ears.

LOL, SO YOU SPEAK FOR COAST WATCHER....ARE YOU ONE AND THE SAME?

Date: Mar 2, 2006

beentheredonethat wrote:

The visit is the minor part. The SAP reports really are the heart of the NCATE process. These could have been returned.

Hate to reveal ignorance but, "SAP" = ?

My original query was an expression of amazement; an NCATE de-accreditation would be something of a catastrophe, and yet, until today, I had as yet heard nothing about any part of the NCATE review process being concluded.

Date: Mar 2, 2006

Coast Watcher wrote:

beentheredonethat wrote: The visit is the minor part. The SAP reports really are the heart of the NCATE process. These could have been returned. Hate to reveal ignorance but, "SAP" = ? My original query was an expression of amazement; an NCATE de-accreditation would be something of a catastrophe, and yet, until today, I had as yet heard nothing about any part of the NCATE review process being concluded.

I think you mean SPA, not SAP. USM has about 12 (give or take a few) SPAs that are part of the NCATE process. But the heart of NCATE is the Institutional Report (IR), which has a Unit level focus (as opposed to the program level focus of the SPA). The chair of the site visit team did the pre-visit visit this week. The full site visit will be in a few weeks (they are the eyes and ears of the BOE). That's the nuts and bolts of the process. There will be little to no information of value reported until the site visit is complete. Anything you hear until then, positive or negative, take with a big grain of salt. The actual feedback will be here soon enough.