Only if you’ve been residing under a rock might you not know that Southern Polytechnic State University and Kennesaw State are in the process of consolidating. The first day of classes for the “New U” is this coming August 17, 2015.
Students and staff involved in The Sentinel, SPSU’s The Sting, and other campus publications and stations from both institutions have been meeting for several months now, and have submitted a list of mutually agreed upon recommendations to the Consolidation Committee, President’s Cabinet and Georgia Board of Regents.
However, the merger of student-led media from SPSU and KSU will be an ongoing, fluid and open process. KSU Student Media (KSUSM) is dedicated to the support and encouragement of responsible, ethical media to connect, explore and enrich the lives of the university’s many constituencies. The Sentinel is part of KSUSM.
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>> SPSU/KSU Consolidation Suggestion Box
An update from the Office of the President:
TO: All Faculty & Staff
FROM: Daniel S. Papp, President
DATE: Nov. 26, 2014
SUBJECT: November Campus Update
Consolidation Update. Consolidation continues to move forward at a rapid pace. Much has been achieved, but much remains to be done.As reported in the October 2 Campus Update, both the Consolidation Prospectus and the 2015- 16 Consolidated Strategic Plan were submitted to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC) on schedule on October 1. Both are posted on the consolidation website at http://www.ksuspsuconsolidation.com.Since then, SACSCOC has been especially reviewing the Consolidation Prospectus. All indications are that SACSCOC will approve the prospectus at its December 6-9 meeting in Nashville and allow the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to formally approval of the consolidation of KSU and SPSU at its January 6 meeting. However, the Board’s formal approval of consolidation will not mean that all consolidation work has been accomplished. In many ways, it will just be beginning.Thus, in late May, Kennesaw State must submit a detailed “Substantive Change Report” to SACSCOC that covers 44 items related to consolidation. This report, which will be several hundred pages long, is being prepared by the expanded Accreditation Team. The report is a critically important document. During the next few months, members of the Accreditation Team will contact many faculty and staff requesting information for the report. If anyone on the Accreditation Team contacts you requesting information, please respond as rapidly and fully as possible.After the Substantive Change Report is submitted, SACSCOC will appoint a Visitation Team to review the report and visit KSU in early September. The Visitation Team will spend several days on campus interviewing faculty, staff, and students and examining KSU operations to assess how well consolidation is progressing. The Visitation Team will then submit its report on the state of consolidation to SACSCOC. Finally, if all goes well, SACSCOC at its December 2015 meeting will approve the continuation of the new KSU’s accreditation.
Definitely make an archive section for past Sting articles: maybe call it, “Sentimentinal?”
you know, after all the vitriol and hate from the SPSU students and alumni about how terrible KSU is and how their degree is now totally worthless. i don’t think our engineering school deserves any recognition. i have heard of a “green night” where the athletic teams wear green, not in a million years will that happen. SPSU should be grateful that we are giving them a sports hall of fame and naming the engineering school after them. if they had conducted themselves with class and realized that KSU had nothing to do with the decision to merge then sure, but not after they trashed KSU for the past year. sorry.
I ok with the merger but not what happens to the SPSU degree. It is like us coming to KSU and throwing all your degrees away. How would that feel?
I think we should adopt some of their traditions. I heard they have a bath tub race every year. Sounds like fun.