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Accreditation visits 30 put HP on her toes Defining Howard Payne was especially the name of the game in 1983-84 as two agencies reviewed the university for official accreditation. The importance of such ac- creditations can’t be overlooked by students as just being paperwork for the administration. Both the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Texas Educa- tion Agency, if granting approval would authenticate one of HP’s the two studies of HP. Both re- quired self-studies and necessitated presenting HP in a tight, attractive The Texas Education Agency was first to come. TEA grants teacher certification power and so concentrated on the School of The self-study was due from the School by September’s end. Dr. Ralph A. Phelps Jr., HP president, said the self-study’s completion was a miracle because Dr. Howard Tucker, dean of the School, came in mid-August and quickly got it After the October visit by TEA representatives, HP was extension of all programs out of a recommendation and noted that the School had improved much since its last inspection and ap- The approval was even more im- pressive when considering the stif- fening of standards in Texas for ac- creditation of teacher certification. Dr. Tucker said H. Ross Perot, chairman of the Governor’s Select Committee on Public Education, believes 50 percent of the 64 in- stitutions empowered for certifica- tion at the time should lose their a TEA did leave a list of sugges- tions. The suggestions ranged from filing a report on the university’s creasing the amount of children and adolescent literature in the educa- tion library. The SACS study was more in- Readying for the SACS visit busied all faculty members because of the self-study and all ed floors,6 ashTd windows, ings and beautified the grounds for the ultimate mid-April visit. The SACS visit also motivated building, microfilming and evaluating on campus. SACS sug- gested in the last 10-year study that administrative offices be mov- ed from Walker Memorial Library. Work on the proposed administra- tion building had progressed to bracing first floor walls by the visit The same 10-year-old report recommended that all student academic records be microfilmed and placed in a vault in a downtown bank for safety. The microfilming of the 88,000 student September to comply. The SACS requirement was more appreciated when Old Main, where records Evaluations by students and alumni in the spring and fall 1983 SACS and were destined to show what was happening in the classroom. Faculty members were assigned to committees for eleven standards that SACS would review: purpose, organization and administration, graduate program and research. The faculty committees, led by the Steering Committee, produced an 8Vi x 11, 2-inch thick, self-study volume. Dr. J. W. Cady, vice presi- dent for academic affairs, said the visiting team would inspect the ac- curacy of the self-study, the effi- ciency of the university’s opera- tions, and the university’s purpose and obligations in relation to its catalog. Word of possible litigation against Dr. Phelps for alleged sex discrimination in not promoting Dr. Evelyn Romig, associate professor of English, to fill the vacancy at the helm of the Department of English, first weekday of the team’s visit. That and publicity about a few faculty member resignations didn’t affect the team, said Dr. Phelps. The team concluded the visit with an exit interview with Dr. Phelps. While the report and ap- classified, Dr. Phelps said the exit meeting was encouraging. The recommendations made were to be put in report form, copies of which were sent to SACS in Atlanta, Ga., and to HP. Dr. Phelps was to respond to the preliminary report during fall 1984. About the rough draft of the report, he said, “There was nothing in the accomplish given time and money.” Based upon the report, the Com- mission on Colleges of the Southern Association would review and make recommendations to the SACS Delegate Assembly. The assembly would vote on HP’s reaffirming of accreditation when they met in For an event that would mean so much to students, the students were actually the only ones on cam- pus who didn’t work hard to see HP through to the new reaccreditations.
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