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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 Clarence McLean, Sr on July 18, 2008 at 5:39am: I remember helping set off Midnight Basketball in the old ROTC gym. The floor was pitiful, but hey, you had brothers who loved to ball. It started off small, but soon we had a full house...that was until SWAT shut us down...lol...Those were the days.

Comment by Monique Johnson on July 17, 2008 at 4:07pm: Man who remember the year Eve came to perform for Homecoming, she fell coming on stage and split her pants in the butt area!!!! LOLOLOL..... I remember my freshman year they had a haunted house going in the old gym. The best semester I had was the semester they had to open Hurt Hall for the guys.

Comment by Tory Jones on July 17, 2008 at 3:52pm: Shout out to foster hall of the 90s. I can remember camping out in Walkerwood hall to reserve a room when it first opened up. LOL. Oh, what about that winter we had the blizzard come through and the cafeteria manager was mad because almost all of the cafeteria trays were taken and used for sleds going down the hill. LOL. It was so talked about we were actually on the news showing how we were passing time during the blizzard. Man those were the days. Oh yeah, I had a roommate (i wont say his name) decided to roll on his rollerblades with all the ice on the ground.....things that make you go hmmmmmm?

Comment by Tamaka Lafftte Kidd on July 17, 2008 at 2:53pm: Neither would I, Patrese...

Comment by Patrese Harris Summers on July 16, 2008 at 7:35pm: I miss "The Hill." I was there from 91-96. I wouldn't trade those days in for the nothing in the world.

Comment by Zan, MBA/Ed.S on July 16, 2008 at 11:10am: Freshman year 1995!!!! I wild out in the 90's. By the time 2000 came around I was focused, but the 90's was off the chain....the Light House, Freak Nic, Daytona, etc. Sometimes I wish I could go back for at least 1 week...lol

Comment by Rodney Simpson aka AKSHUN on July 14, 2008 at 10:55am: Wow thats crazy dude talking about Johns damn I am old lol anybody remember WILLIE WOH from mobile acting a damn fool in the student center or all those sundays watching the SIMPSONS in there lol. Panty raids or the riot after dude was shot by swat we acted a damn fool my mom saw all that on tv at the crib. I got one remember no phones in your room and standing in the hall to call someone you had met at DANCING ROOM only until 4 am and then taking a shower then off to class. Ok FREAKNIC 91-92 lol top that class of the 90s heads Peace

Comment by Shondra "PIMP" McNease on July 11, 2008 at 11:20pm: Shout out to all my hoop-phi sistas'. For those that don't recognize, that's the Lady Bulldogs Basketball Team; 3rd floor, Thomas Hall. We had so much fun! I can remember sitting my juice on the outside of the window ledge when I wanted to get it cold, having the dance contests in the hall with Lil' Bit, TJ, Walidah, Lena, Tori, Rachel and most of all, my fellow high school Drummajor, Trina. I remember the drama; it was all good. I remember the 4am practices, running those DAMN hills, and traveling to away games. The music......... R. Kelly (Stepping into the 90's), Shai, Silk, Luke, 69 Boys, 95 South, Too Short, Mary J., Mint Condition, and my most memorable, Secret Garden which was composed by Quincy Jones and featured various artists such as Barry White. As a senior in high school, I was invited by Coach Parham to visit the campus and I tripped over the curb. I was told right then, "You are offically a Bulldog. Anytime you trip and fall, you have just been granted full membership in the family." Of course I signed! THE GOOD OL' DAYS. I TRULY MISS "THE HILL!"

Comment by Cordelia (Chatman) Stanley on July 11, 2008 at 1:20am: Thigpen Hall-2nd floor-91, Remember it like it was yesterday!

Comment by Brothaeye on July 3, 2008 at 9:06am: It was all them snakes, possums, badgers, etc. that killed the skunks man!

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