 Minutes
of the Committee on Principles and Philosophy of Accreditation
January 21, 2000
Ella
Sims was designated Co-chair by Jerry Wright, replacing Edna Jackson who resigned. The committee met at 11:00 a.m. on Friday January
21, 2000 in the conference room of Hammond Hall (Computer Services and Information
Technology). Present: Matt Gilligan, Co-chair (356-2809), Jack Simmons (356-2312), Charles
Adams (356-6946); Excused: Barbara Bart, Recorder (353-3084), Otis Johnson, (356-2208);
Absent: Ella Sims, Co-Chair (356-2935), Alex Kalu (356-2282), Lamar Rhodes (356-2194).
Dr.
Gilligan distributed a memo to members containing the following attachments:
Ø Committee Charge from Dr. Brown
Ø SACS Committee Charge
Ø 10/27/99 email from Dr. J. Wright
Ø SACS document pages
Ø SSU SACS 2000 Timetable
Ø Minutes June 1, 1999 COPAPOA meeting
Ø Core Competencies Document
Ø Jan. 10, 2000 memo and Position
Statement
Ø Supporting Documentation for position
statement
The committee discussed its
charge and strategy for completion of its report. Some
of the discussion was written into draft report items by Jack Simmons (below). In order to
meet it goal of voting upon a final draft of the report by March 9, 2000, the committee
set a deadline of March 2 for discussion of a first draft, and a mid-February deadline for
submission of written material for the report.
Dr. Gilligan said he would make
sure the handout and minutes were hand-delivered to the excused and absent members.
The next meeting was scheduled
for 12:00 p.m. Tuesday February 1, 2000 in the Hammond Hall Conference room. There is a Faculty Senate meeting at 10:00 but it
should be over by 12:00. Members who may be senators: please excuse yourselves to attend
this meeting if the senate meeting drags on. Thanks.
Report
Items
Accreditation
Process
Definition
and Recommendations
The
self-study process must be ongoing, comprehensive and tailored to the specific changing
needs of the university for the sake of institutional improvement and accreditation. To this end, the committee recommends:
That
all self-study documents for SSU should be reviewed annually by the SACS Steering
Committee (SACS). Based upon this annual
review, SACS will make recommendations for self-study in the next year. Those recommendations should support the
university mission statement and the changing SSU environment. Those recommendations should also have a long-term
goal of reviewing all major university functions over a ten-year period.
1.
SACS may implement their own recommendations for self-study, or they may advise the vise
presidents (VPs) to form special committees for the study of particular institutional
concerns. The VPs will then execute those recommendations at the university level, and
pass on the responsibility for self-study occurring at the college level to the deans.
2. Copies of the results of each
study will be filed in the office for Institutional Research and Planning and the SACS
office.
3. SACS cannot recommend further
self-study in a given area until the results and recommendations of previous studies have
been responded to: implemented or officially rejected.
4. Recommended Calendar: September: SACS reviews all SSU self-study documents.
October: SACS recommends the form of
self-study for the school year.
January February March
April May June
July August September
October November December
1999
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