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SACS Announces
Visiting Team
Membership
By W. David Conn, self-study director
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) has just announced the following list of members of the visiting team that will conduct an audit of the institutional-effectiveness (IE) component of our self study. The team will be here later in the semester, from March 15-18. Listed under each name is the section (or sections) of the SACS re-affirmation criteria that the individual will have primary responsibility for reviewing.
John W. Prados, (chair) vice president emeritus and university professor University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Section I: Principles and Philosphy of Education; Virginia Wheeless, associate vice president for planning and special assististant to the chancellor, University of North Texas, Sections II, III: Institutional Purpose; Institutional Effectiveness; Timmothy J. Crimmins, chair, Department of History, Georgia State University, Section IV: educational program coordinator; Ralph V. Norman Jr., professor of religious studies, (formerly associate vice chancellor), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Section IV: Humanities; Samuel P. McManus, provost, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Section IV: Natural Science; Floyd C. Hardy director of library services, North Carolina Central University, Section V: Library; Barbara A. Mann associate professor of higher education, Florida State University, Section V: Student Development; Dale W. Lick, university professor (formerly president), Florida State University, Section VI: Organization and Administration and NCAA chair.
To be announced: Section VI: Finance. Membership of the team that will review the strategic component of the self study has not yet been announced. Readers are reminded that the entire self-study report is already available on-line at http://www.vt.edu:10021/admin/provost/selfstudy/.