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SACS slaps A&M with 12-month probation
Thursday, December 11, 2008
By BUDD MCLAUGHLIN
Times Staff Writer budd.mclaughlin@htimes.com
Interim presidentsays no degreesare in jeopardy
Alabama A&M University has been placed on probation over unspecified financial issues, according to the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
"The commission voted Tuesday to put Alabama A&M on probation for 12 months," Dr. Belle Wheelan, president of the Commission of Colleges, said Wednesday. The action came during the accrediting organization's annual meeting in San Antonio.
She said the school failed to comply with the organization's Principles of Accreditation on financial stability, financial resources, financial aid audits and control of finances.
"We have not received the formal letter from SACS outlining the particulars upon which they made their decision," Alabama A&M Interim President Beverly Edmond said Wednesday. "The thing we want to emphasize is, the institution remains accredited.
"While this is not good news ... none of the degrees we award are in jeopardy."
Edmond said the school is already working on a plan to address the areas of concern.
"We are very confident that these issues will be quickly resolved," she said. A&M "remains an outstanding place to receive an education, and none of the concerns deal with the quality of our academic programs."
Edmond said she anticipated A&M would be able to quickly come off probation, as Auburn did. SACS placed Auburn on probation in December 2003 on issues concerning governance and its board of trustees, and lifted the sanction 12 months later.
A&M has also been involved in controversy surrounding its board of trustees. However, Wheelan said, "the board situation was not a part of this review."
Financial controversies are not new for A&M.
In April, the board formed a committee to follow up on a report by the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts the showed some former officials and employees owed more than $1.176 million in inappropriate charges and money not properly deposited. The audit covered Oct. 1, 2002, through Sept. 30, 2005.
Among the findings were:
"Daily Cash Counts" were not always compared and reconciled with what was taken at the cash terminal, and deposits were not made timely or "intact," meaning items in the deposit were not always the same amounts of cash or checks collected at the terminal on that date.
The university did not have an accurate list of outstanding checks to support the bank reconciliations of the main operating account, and reconciliations were not performed on a timely basis. Differences between the amounts reflected on the outstanding check file and the amounts reflected as outstanding checks in the university's bank reconcilement ranged from thousands to millions of dollars.
Procedures were not in place to ensure documentation of revenue collected for athletic events was retained and that money was properly accounted for and deposited.
According to SACS, probation is the more serious of two sanctions, the other being a warning. Probation is usually, but not necessarily, invoked as the last step before an institution is removed from membership. Probation may be imposed upon initial institutional review, depending on the judgment of the commission of the seriousness of noncompliance or in the case of repeated violations recognized by the commission over time.
When a school fails to correct deficiencies or make satisfactory progress toward compliance with the Principles of Accreditation, it may be placed on probation. The maximum consecutive time an institution may be on probation is two years.
The Commission on Colleges of SACS is the regional body for the accreditation of higher education institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Latin America that award associate, baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees.
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Comment by Earnest(Elove..E) on March 27, 2009 at 9:44am - GOD BE WITH YOU ERIC WAGNER , REST IN PEACE !
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Comment by Earnest(Elove..E) on March 27, 2009 at 9:42am
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Comment by Marcelyn D. Johnson on February 26, 2009 at 7:29pm - I am deeply sorry about the death of mr wagner. my prayers go out to his family.
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Comment by Lonnie J. Fuller Jr. on February 26, 2009 at 6:22pm
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Eric Wagner
Family-Placed Death Notice
WAGNER, Eric Mr. Eric Alexander Wagner, age 46, of 1256 Hudson Dr., Orangeburg, SC, passed at his residence. Graveside service will be held on Friday, February 27, 2009, 2PM at Westview Cemetery. He leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Mrs. Adelle Williams Wagner, of Holly Hill, SC. Alfonso Dawson Mortuary, (404) 691-3810.
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Eric Alexander Wagner
Funeral services for Eric Alexander Wagner, 46, of 1256 Hodson Drive,
Orangeburg, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, at Greater Target
AME Church in Holly Hill, where the Rev. A.R. Kollock Sr. is pastor and the Rev.
Warren Smith is officiating. Burial will be in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.
Mr. Wagner died at his residence in Orangeburg.
He was born in Chicago, the son of Mrs. Adelle W. Wagner and the late Dr. John
Alexander Wagner. He grew up in Atlanta and completed high school there. He
continued his education at Morehouse College, Atlanta, and Alabama A&M
University in Huntsville, Ala. At an early age, he became a member of the Church
of the Incarnation in Atlanta. Mr. Wagner was employed by Intermedia Marketing
Solutions in Orangeburg.
His survivors include his mother, Mrs. Adelle Williams Wagner of 216 Louie
Court, Holly Hill; an uncle; two aunts; and a host of other relatives and
friends.
Friends may call at Shuler-Marshall Funeral Home of Holly Hill.
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Comment by Natalie R. Arnold on February 22, 2009 at 1:38pm - Thank you for informing. Prayers to his family and the bulldog nation.
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Hello Everyone, I reget to inform you that my good friend Eric Wagner has gone on to be with the Lord. Homecoming services will be make public as it becomes available.
Sincerely,Lonnie Fuller Jr.
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Comment by tamikii young on February 16, 2009 at 7:34pm - I heard A&M ain't nothing like it was in the nineties. Heyy I remeber that dang snow storm in 93. That was the best year. We were acting like little kids then. The cafe would not serve us lunch so we bum rushed the cafe. Everybody was stealing ice cream cones and anything else they could find to eat.........lol!!!! Security came in there and made everybody leave. The cafe and the block was like meeting places for people to meet and greet. Damn! I miss that school College life.........lol!!!!!!
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