Steering Committee
Purpose:
The Steering Committee is the coordinating and decision-making body responsible for overseeing the activities of the entire reaffirmation process and is responsible for the penultimate draft and final text of the two separate documents as part of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) reaffirmation process:
Compliance Certification and Quality Enhancement Plan. The committee schedules and moderates the university-wide discussion of the draft
Compliance Certification and Quality Enhancement Plan. The committee is responsible for the university’s interactions with the SACS review team.
Membership:
Committee members are appointed by the Chancellor and include:
 | David Weismiller (Provost’s Office)
| Image to
be added | Jan Tovey (Faculty Senate,
College of Arts
and Sciences) |
 | Ernie Marshburn (Division of Research
and Graduate Studies) |  | Catherine Rigsby (College of Arts
and Sciences) |
 | Elmer Poe (Office of
Academic Outreach) | Image to
be added | Mark Taggart (Faculty Senate,
School of Music) |
 | Ann Jenkins (Administration
and Finance) |  | Rita Reaves (College of Technology
and Computer Science)
|
 | Fiona Baxter (Division of
Student Affairs) |  | Terri Lawler (College of Nursing) |
 | Steve Thomas (Dean’s Council,
College of Allied
Health Sciences) |  | Larry Boyer (Academic
Library Services) |
 | Virginia Hardy (Brody School
of Medicine) |  | George Bailey (College of
Arts and Sciences) |
Approach
The Steering Committee holds monthly meetings to:
- Report on the work of the reaffirmation working groups to ensure coordination, completeness, and relevance of their work;
- Help determine the cross-over and linkages throughout the strategic plan and accreditation compliance certification, as well as any gaps between the two documents, and parse responsibility for coverage to one of the working groups;
- Report back to the reaffirmation working groups the results of the coordination and other conversations among the steering committee;
- Ensure that each working group is incorporating other participants, wherever necessary, to gain access to information from which determinations of processes and directions may be clarified;
- Advise the university unit directors of any complications, resource needs, or other impediments to the overall process of continued accreditation;
- Assure the reaffirmation process is proceeding according to the established timeline;
- Review the final drafts of the compliance certification to ensure conformity with the university’s strategic plan;
- Review recommended areas for focus for the Quality Enhancement Plan; and
- Review the final documentation (Compliance Certification and Quality Enhancement Plan) for submission to the Chancellor and, ultimately, the accrediting body.
The Steering Committee is engaged in every aspect of the reaffirmation process and individual members are committed to full participation. The steering committee is a highly collaborative group seeks the input and views of many before reaching recommendations. Steering Committee members may also guide the reaccreditation project more intimately participating in work group activities.
You may contact the SACS Steering Committee at
sacs@ecu.edu.
