In the fall of
2006, WCU underwent
reaffirmation by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools, the major accrediting body
for public and private institutions of higher education in the 11 southernmost
states. I served as the editor of WCU's Compliance Reports.
At the December
2006 SACS conference, Carol Burton (WCU
SACS Director) and I presented
a session on writing the compliance report. After being encouraged to
do so by the feedback from that session, Ann Hallyburton (Associate
Editor) and I conducted (the following year) a 1/2 day workshop on writing issues related to preparing the
compliance reports and the QEP, and the 2008 SACS conference workshop is base upon those materials
You are welcome to use any of these materials; please email me if you do so (notification allows me to track application and utility of this work, and it provides support for my professional activities). Please feel free
to contact me if you would like more information regarding writing and
editing; my CV details my academic and
professional experience in this area.