Self-Study/NEASC Reaccreditation

Herb Kessel's Top Ten List of Things to Worry About in 1999

1. The March 22nd deadline will pass without anyone remembering to complete their committee or program self-studies!

2. Economics majors will come to realize that if they rearrange the letters in "ECONOMICS," they get "COMIC NOSE!"

3. Committee and program chairs will not leave enough time to carefully complete their self-studies, especially the more difficult assessment and projection sections!

4. My new briefcase, like all its predecessors, will break apart at the seams within two months!

5. Only a small percentage of our community will complete the Campus-Wide Accreditation Survey by the March 1, 1999 deadline!

6. The March deadlines will pass and I will have yet to return my own Campus-Wide Accreditation Survey or to finish my own self-appraisals for the SSRC and the Economics Department!

7. Will people question the anonymity of their responses to the Campus-Wide Accreditation Survey? Will people think that the coded return envelopes are being used for purposes other than tracking non-respondents? How can I convince people that the return envelopes are separated permanently from the anonymous surveys as soon as they are returned and that the data is entered into the computer with no names or code numbers?

8. After teaching economics for nearly 30 years, I will wake up one morning to learn that there is really such a thing as a free lunch!

9. In years to come, will I be remembered as the neurotic faculty member who wrote the final draft of the year 2000 Self-Study Accreditation Report that no one read but everybody disliked?

10 Each night I will be forced to listen to David Letterman's top ten list one more time!

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last revised: May 11, 2000