As we wait for FAMU’s official response on their probation ruling, The Gradebook points out that a school has to have blown it to get slapped by SACS:
“In getting slapped with a six-month probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, FAMU does not find itself in good company. No other public university in Florida, in recent memory, has been so zapped by SACS. And it’s fair to say the colleges and universities that do get hit tend to be small, fairly obscure schools – not
big state universities, not big research institutions and certainly not schools with big reps like FAMU, a former Time magazine College of the Year.”
Some of those schools?
“Chrichton College, a small Christian college in Memphis, Tenn.; Louisiana College (no, not LSU), a small Baptist college in Pineville, La.; Georgetown College (no, not Georgetown University), a small Baptist college in Georgetown, Ky.; Hiwassee College, a small Methodist school in Madisonville, Tenn., and so on. True, Auburn and the University of Southern Mississippi also made SACS’ bad list in recent years, but big schools are far and away the exception to the rule.”
Their point is that it takes a special kind of institution-wide malfeasance to find yourself at the bottom of this particular barrel. Stay tuned.
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