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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 Monique Johnson on July 2, 2008 at 3:22pm: I lived in Thigpen 98-99, every once in a while, someone would run over a skunk and have our WHOLE dorm stank as all get out.......... Dang I miss THA HILL...

Comment by Anglise " B-Angie-B" McGee-Gillyard on June 29, 2008 at 6:18am: What's up BullDogs of the 90's this is B - Angie- B from Detroit, MI I was know for working as a Athletic trainer for football/basketball seasons. Hope everyone is doing well

Comment by Terrance "TB" Bettis on June 27, 2008 at 3:23pm: Can ne1 really tell me why them damn skunks smelled worst dead than alive and what was up when all those skunks turned up dead at one time in 91' or spr. 92'

Comment by Tamika Coleman-Collins( aka " PEACHES" ) on June 27, 2008 at 8:54am: I came to A&M by way of Waterloo, Iowa. I got joked on because I talked like a 'valley girl'. Like OMG!. Anyway, Pepe Le Pew is right, I never ran so many times for my life, scared to get sprayed by those stinkers, and just think we had to walk up the hill past thier little cubbie holes to get to Buchanan. Shot out to 3rd floor. At first it was a culture shock for me being around so many black people. Yes I am black but when you around white folk for so long, you do loose your identity. I am glad I came to A&M, I would never trade the experience for the world and the 90's was the best time of my life. The best music I feel, came from this time....and not to start mess, but we actually thought it was cute that R.Kelly and Aaliyah eloped, eventhough she was 15 and he was 20 something at the time. HMMM!!

Comment by FREDERIC STREET 1990 on June 26, 2008 at 1:39pm: srtill best ime to be in shool during the 90's even though we lost the classic we still had fun runnin to "john's" every friday

Comment by tamikii young on June 24, 2008 at 6:08pm: shout out to all my peeps from " Da Ham". Also shout out all my Jackson- Olin family. Hello!!!! to all my friends at A&M. Thigpen may have been the dorm , but Thomas Hall was to legit to quit.........lol!! Can no one do it like 93-97 alumni's. We had a ball in the nineties. I am now ready for THE MAGIC CITY CLASSIC in my hometown Birmingham baby!!!!!!! The Dirty South ain't nothing like it.

Comment by Chris "Slim" Allen on June 24, 2008 at 4:23pm: Shout out to those Hopkins Hustlers, "Big Daddy", "Pretty Ricky", "P.dub", and “Skinny Pimp" and the rest of the brothers sitting at the front watching the girls walk by. Shout out to the old cafe. Waffles in the morning, sandwiches for lunch, Mac and chesse and chicken with hot sauce for dinner. Shout out to the band for trying to fight the football team during two-a-days in the old cafe. Shout to the volleyball girls for being the first set of girls the football team sees during two-a-days and thinking they are the best thing since slice bread (until everyone else showed up). Shout out to those who started the food fight in the old cafe. This is to all my boys playing Playstation and not going to class. Shout out to Krystal's for those "GAS" burgers after partying at the Lighthouse where they played "I GOT FIVE ON IT". Shout out to my fellow football bulldogs and shout to the basketball team from 93 - 97 for beating Alabama State at home and being at the game jammed packed and mad hot. I may be from the Midwest but I love the south. Shout out to all the girls their freshmen year clustered up as best friends but by junior year they couldn't stand one another. Shout out to the old heads that knew which freshmen they were about to scoop up. Shout out to the “Old” School of Business and the "New" School of Business where classes were off the chain. And last but not least shout out to my SNAGGY-WAGGY-DOGGIE-WOGGIE room dog my partner in crime Freaknic and Black Beach Weekend, Dayton Beach we were there REPRESENTING!!!! Slim out 93-97

Comment by Tabitha Johnson on June 22, 2008 at 5:07pm: I thought I was the only one missing the 90's...talk about Friday nights at The Lighthouse w/pitcher beer specials for the po' freshmen....Biggie and Pac were still alive and feuding...Adina Howard, Brownstone, and Zhane were rockin'...DJ Smurf--who attended A&M--put out an album w/"Oooh Lawd" that got everybody hyped...The Quad and the Old Cafe was the spot(s)...pajama parties were off the hook...dust-til-dawn parties stayed crunk...We shared the sidewalks with "Pepe Le Pew" (THE SKUNKS)...and when gas was still cheap, we all piled into cars and went EVERYWHERE!!!! Oooohhh take me back!!! Buchanan Hall(B-Phi) was still in operation and 3rd. floor held it down...shout outs Nina, Tomeka, Keisha, Equella, Angela, Sam(played snare in the band), and all of Buchanan Hall...I Miss You All...Much Love!!! Somebody please bring back the good ol' dayz!!!
Class of 1994----94-00 on The Hill!!!

Comment by Deirdre Daniels on June 21, 2008 at 1:49pm: This is sooo messed up, i cannot get off of this site. The 90's was the best time of my life. I tell people
A & M raised me, but they don't understand. If I could go back in time and repeat the '90's I would. We had a ball and still graduated. Don't tell me what God can't do :)

Comment by Ursula Y. Williams, Ed.S. on June 18, 2008 at 6:09pm: "The Hill" will always be in my heart.. I entered the Buch spring 94 and it was the bomb for me. Sending shot outs to Tekla, Toni, Chan, Shade, Vickie, Mia, and everyone else from second floor. Too many names to remember I will have to pull out my year book to list you all. But we know it was the Buch 2nd floor. Much Love

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