FAMU’s quest to reaffirm its accreditation is in the final stretch. An eight-person site visit team, representing the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges, arrives today.The university held good standing with SACS every year until 2007, when deficient a Board of Trustees and poor administrative leadership resulted in probation. One year later, following a sweeping overhaul of FAMU’s board and a massive turn-around effort led by new President James Ammons, SACS lifted the sanction.
Part of the process includes a review of FAMU’s new Quality Enhancement Plan, developed under the direction of Chemistry Professor Maurice Edington (pictured on the right).
Edington said that the QEP focus on helping students strengthen their analytical skills.
"Managing your account, your checkbook requires critical thinking skills, particularly in a time of limited financial resources, how do you best utilize the resources available to you,” he stated. “So we want students to be able to learn to solve problems, process information and make informed decisions."
The SACS team will be in Tallahassee until Thursday.
The Rattlers are back!
How the accreditation mess began
Good Job Go Rattlers.
ReplyDeleteThis is sad. Maurice Eddington. SMH. I hope we get reaccredited.
ReplyDeleteFAMU has assembled a very talented team (including Edington) for the reaffirmation process. Now is the time to band together and support our institution.
ReplyDeleteI hope QEP can do more than teach our students to balance their checkbooks. Are you kidding?
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should read it first. Apparently MOST of America hasn't done that in a long time either so... Help or shut it!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2:50PM: Look, Rattler Nation published this comment about balancing their checkbooks-"Managing your account, your checkbook requires critical thinking skills, particularly in a time of limited financial resources, how do you best utilize the resources available to you,”. This was also on the local news last night straight out of Eddington's mouth. This is embarassing.
ReplyDeleteSo, RN, now you're censoring the comments, even when they are not offensive or anything remotely so?
ReplyDelete2:48, QEP is a detailed, public document that the university has been working tireless on for MANY months. It is a five-year plan which will begin in the 2009 fall semester. Please read it and then you won't be so danggone uninformed. Dang.
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ReplyDelete". . . tirelessly on ..."
U'd be surprised how many GROWN people don't know how to manage their account let alone a checkbook! I work at a bank and its sad. Now I have interacted with the FAMU team and the SACS team today and I am excited! The QEP is a framework buts it should turn out well!
ReplyDeleteWho are you people? Everyone appears to miss the point. I said nothing about the quality of the QEP document or program. I commented on the way it was characterized by Eddington--that is, he implied that the best we can hope to teach our "college" students is how to balance their checkbooks. I could have balanced my check book in the second grade if I had had a checking account. This is pathetic. I am certain FAMU's students are much better than that--aren't they? RN should immediately remove this blog entry and all of the comments!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me like the guy was using a 'real world' example (making wise financial decisions based on being properly informed) to show how the QEP will be effective for our students. One should be careful about taking quotes from a 10 second TV clip out of context. If you really want to know about the QEP, just read it!!!
ReplyDeleteTouche. I think that 9:38 ignored the part where Edington said that "we want students to be able to learn to solve problems, process information and make informed decisions." These skills apply to managing financial accounts and other necessary activities that FAMU students will need to be competitive in this tough economic/employment climate.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me like some folks on this blog try to make a big deal out of nothing.
ReplyDeleteColleges are supposed to teach critical thinking skills. There's always room for improvement in the way FAMU delivers knowledge to students. That why a Quality Enhancement Plan is necessary.
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