Confirming what we already know

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A regional accrediting organization has put Texas Tech on probation.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools says it took action after Tech failed to show that its curriculum met college-level competencies.

The association issued the probation during an annual meeting Tuesday in New Orleans.

Tech spokeswoman Margaret Lutherer says the school put a program in place last year to make those assessments. She says the probation was issued simply because Tech didn't have the results ready in time for the association's meeting. Lutherer says the school expects to have the results ready by end of the spring semester.

Tech is accredited by more than 25 agencies in a variety of academic programs. A loss of accreditation could prevent a school from participating in federal financial-aid programs.

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Is this house-o-cards they call tek getting ready to be exposed on some HUGE academic short-falls? I would have to say having the info ready at the end of the Spring Semester when it is clearly due no later than now is a problem! It may have actually been due before now which makes it worse. Something is very VERY fishy here !

Simply a paper work error, nothing more.

WHAT?

tceh is accredited?

even if it is just a paperwork error, that's pretty stupid on their part to risk that.

WHAT A FIND!!!!!!

agreed it was stupid, but its also easy to fix, thank goodness.

people will blow this out of proportion but the reality is that it has absolutely nothing to do with Tech academic standards.

A paperwork error in itself would tend to reinforce the original assertion of the accreditation board, would it not?

Also, one wonders if the "delay" in paperwork is because the results aren't so wonderful...?

As usual, CanyonAg doesn't share with you the rest of the story.

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The association extended Tech’s accreditation for “good cause,” which means the institution has shown significant progress toward correcting a problem or shown strong potential for correcting them.

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Merely a slap on the wrist. It won't happen again.

Blue Star for yet another Aggie Moral Victory

I gave you the link and the entire story as reported by a Lubbock TV station.

WHAT? This guy could lose his financial aid?!??



THAT'S AN OUTRAGE! Where will our next generation of kids who are majoring in, uh, flag football and, uh, going bankrupt going to come from?





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We don't need a moral victory of any kind with regards to worthless tceh rectum raiders! It just proves how dumb you and your entire organization are.

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A word not utilized enough by English speaking folks Blue Star for you Sir

I know you utilize your boyfriend's all the time, so don't try to act like you're not familiar!

dp

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Perhaps South Plains College can annex tceh and up the academic standards.

get your Grades Up raiders!

Or maybe North Texas... aren't they looking for a system school?

We need to give our friends from Lubbottucks the benefit of the doubt. I think they had every intention of getting the report in on time but were short with stamp money again.

Maybe their copier ran out of paper.

Critical points to understand about this situation are:

(1) The accrediting agency did not find fault with the quality of any academic programs at Texas Tech University.

(2) What the accrediting agency took exception to was the University’s ability to produce certain data as proof that its curriculum meets a particular standard for student-learning outcomes ? and that’s one standard out of a total of 87 standards a university must meet for accreditation.

(3) Texas Tech has not lost its accreditation and will do what’s necessary to provide the data that shows our courses and degree programs do, in fact, meet the one standard in question.



Attached is a statement by the University in response to this action by the accrediting agency.



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: Dec. 12, 2007

CONTACT: Margaret Lutherer, margaret.lutherer@ttu.edu

(806) 742-2136



Texas Tech Addresses SACS Concerns


Texas Tech University is accredited by more than 25 agencies representing a broad spectrum of academic disciplines taught at the university. On Tuesday (Dec. 11) one agency, while continuing Tech’s accreditation on good cause, placed the university on probation for failing to satisfy one of the agency’s 87 standards for accreditation.


The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) announced Texas Tech’s probation at its annual meeting in New Orleans.


The requirement in question concerns assessment of the students’ general education competencies. SACS noted that the university had not yet collected sufficient data in its assessment plan to determine whether students had attained the expected learning competencies. The assessment plan was implemented within the last academic year.


University officials say that sufficient data will be collected in the spring semester, analyzed in the summer and reported to SACS by September 2008. The probation should then be removed at the next meeting of SACS in December 2008.


“We are currently accredited by SACS and a host of other agencies and we will continue to retain our accreditation with all of them.” said President Jon Whitmore.


“SACS did not find fault with the quality of any academic program at Texas Tech. The issue was the collection of data to verify student outcomes. We will have that data by the end of the Spring Semester.


“Texas Tech University remains an excellent institution for undergraduate education and we will continue to move forward, satisfying this issue of insufficient data and educating our students to be both professionally competent adults and well educated, good citizens who reflect positively on this institution and this state,” he said.


SACS is the regional accrediting body for overall school and college effectiveness in the eleven U.S. Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) and in Latin America.

Like I said before: any group of people who have to try to continuously try to argue that they're "just as good" as another, instead of better, can't really be very good.

Especially if they are now lumped together with TSU as incompetents who cannot complete simple tasks on time.

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We need to give our friends from Lubbottucks the benefit of the doubt. I think they had every intention of getting the report in on time but were short with stamp money again.

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any group of people who have to try to continuously try to argue that they're "just as good" as another, instead of better, can't really be very good.

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What????

Oh no. I put an extra word in there on accident with the first "try." I must really be completely incompetent.

I hate dirt monkeys.

no stamps for the second part of the self assessment!

It's really not that serious.

It's not like they shut down the Journalism program or something...

35-7

So A&M is consistently losing to a NON-college football team?? Are they classified as High School now or what? C'mon Aggies, I really think you can beat this High School team next year.

cue the scoreb....

1. Austin American-Statesman (TX) - December 18, 1999

UT warned to correct evaluation problems, Accreditation agency cites university; president calls it `a wrinkle in the process'
The agency that accredits the University of Texas is warning it to correct two deficiencies within six months or face having its accreditation yanked. UT President Larry Faulkner said that the issues are technical, rather than substantive, and that he does not believe UT is in danger of losing its approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. UT officials said they could not recall UT ever receiving a warning in past accreditation reviews, which determine whether schools meet...



2. The Dallas Morning News - December 19, 1999

UT warned it could lose accreditation Agency gives officials 6 months to show fixes
University of Texas administrators have received a warning from the agency that accredits the university, saying officials must prove they have fixed two problems or risk losing accreditation. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has told administrators they have six months to show that they have a way to rate how well students are learning in the university's two largest schools - liberal arts and natural sciences - and that UT graduates are competent to use...



3. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - December 19, 1999

Metro & Texas digest
Texas Agency warns UT of risk of losing accreditation AUSTIN - University of Texas administrators have received a warning from the agency that accredits the university, saying that officials must prove that they have fixed two problems or risk losing accreditation. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has told administrators that they have six months to show that they have a way to rate how well students are learning in the university's two largest schools,...

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She says the probation was issued simply because Tech didn't have the results ready in time for the association's meeting.

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They mailed it but forgot the stamp.

Really though, if your accrediting is on the line, you get the damn paperwork done. Pathetic. Even the administration of the school is spending too much time at the free clinic it seems. Or they are also unable to read past a 4th grade level.