The Sturm und Drang over the Accreditation reports continues. It’s beginning to look like nobody’s in charge at the district level. Mathur and Co. seem unable to stay on one page. As you know, yesterday, Mathur and board president Dave Lang wrote faculty, saying that “the colleges are encouraged to add any comments about the inclusion of the District/Board of Trustees Response and make other minor changes in their reports, as deemed appropriate, particularly if such additions would enable the accreditation chairs to appropriately include their signatures on the reports.”
Gosh, that’s some encouragement. Did they mean it? Is this some kinda rope-a-dope? We'll see.
The Chancellor will be at Irvine Valley College today, at 2:30, for a “Q & A.” He’ll hold another tomorrow at 10:00. (Both are in Lib 213.)
MEANWHILE, yesterday, the OC Register reported on Saddleback College student Jamal Malone, who remains in a coma:
More than a week after the altercation that led to his hospitalization, Jamal Malone, 20, remains in a medically induced coma at Mission Hospital, his family members said, in critical but stable condition.GRADE LAWSUIT. Inside Higher Ed reports that students are now suing colleges over grades:
Meanwhile, police are still investigating the Sept. 30 fight at Promenade Apartments on Marguerite Parkway.
Chad Duran, Wallace Rodrigues, and Nigel Kawai, all 18, and an unidentified minor were arrested in connection to the incident and District Attorney officials say they will decide what, if any, charges to file against them by their arraignment in late October. (See Saddleback College football player remains in coma)
Tired of students complaining about grades they don’t like? It could be worse — you could be sued. The Boston Globe reported that a student unhappy with his C grade at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst did just that, with a 15-count lawsuit in federal court. A federal judge dismissed the case, but an appeal is possible.
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What? Are Mathur and Lang making noises like they're welshing on the deal?
That would be just like them. But I hope it isn't true. I do hope that the truth can get to the ACCJC and the reports can get signed. We need to move on!
But the truth must be out there.
The reports will get there whether our senate presidents sign them or not.
We will move on whether the reports or signed or not.
The truth is always present - but I think it's best not to sign a lie.
I have learned that the absence of signatures (e.g., co-chair or Academic Senate signatures) IS a big problem for the ACCJC. It is NOT insignificant to them by any means. Essentially, reports lacking signatures are not accepted.
On the other hand, obviously, these people (authors, senate presidents) should sign only if they can do so in good conscience. The authors have labored over these reports and have struggled to follow guidelines. Naturally, they resist signing the reports after false and undocumented elements are "incorporated."
As usual, what this boils down to is the district's failure to honor shared governance. They think that all governance groups (beyond themselves) exist to apply rubber stamps to their products and decisions.
Not so.
Don't sign!
Doesn't a signature imply endorsment?
It is a very big deal if the senates and the faculty accreditation co-chairs do not sign. It is a signal to the ACCJC that the integrity of the reports is suspect, which is is. Can someone sign a report when they have been ordered to place erroneous information, accusations, and unsubstaniated allegations into something they co-authored? I don't think so. I cannot imagine why the administrators are signing. Does it mean that their integrity is for sale? How low will our administrators go in order to keep their high paying salaries?
By the way, we are going to need faculty accreditation co-chairs for 2010, assuming we do not have three more years of progress reports. All you faculty bloggers out there, please consider becoming a faculty accreditation co-chair. We need to stay in the loop and not let our accreditation reports be farmed out to college researchers and administrators, which is what will happen in 2010.
Mathur and Lang welshed. No new language.
A signature means endorsement of the document and the process or in this case, the process and the violation of the process, I would not sign.
ATEP = Another Tremendously Expensive Project
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