CONSULTANT: BLINN ACCREDITATION SHOULD BE SMOOTH
A specialist told the Blinn College Board of Trustees that the school’s accreditation review by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools this October is should go smoothly.
Joseph Silver, a managing partner at the Silver and Associates Consulting firm with, who has more than 30 years experience in higher education, recapped a months-long inspection of the schools documentation for the Association’s off-site review.
According to the Sunday edition of the Bryan/College Station Eagle, Silver also provided a glimpse of what to expect from the review board that will visit at least two of the college’s campuses in late October.
The results of the documents filed earlier this summer yielded about 20 red flags by the accreditation board, each of which will be addressed by out-of-state community college administrators.
Regardless of these red flags, Silver said, none of them are enough to derail the accreditation process.
Silver said the accreditation board has about 95 principles required by SACS accreditation.
Silver said, "The good news is Blinn College has nailed those standards." closing out his hour-and-a-half presentation.
That's good news for Blinn, which will announce Monday afternoon a new partnership with Baylor University that will increase the number of transfers between the two institutions.
And so how much taxpayer money was used to grease another crony’s palm to tell Adminstration the obvious. If things are done correctly all along, not needed. If there is doubt, let the Accreditation Board find it and THEN SPEND THE MONEY TO CORRECT IT.
Seems every (well maybe not EVERY) BUT MANY entities with public funds need a consultant for everything that naive me thought was provided for an employee to be doing.