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)rs v to generate tli ease from a rec» a little over$ 5S, even thecomit. Local known that we il lass numbers tokl munched their cab real reason 1 stead of coveringi; the session wasoii nmittee’s incompe' ation. Ifyouwerei ride behind :ee does warrant a re# ink. rldssodai does notn embers ■ 2-year accreditation self-study begins hat provide the ire ) give their t better. By PAMELA EADES Battalion Keporter Texas A&M University is be ginning a self-study required every ten years for accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The association is an accre diting board for schools in 11 states and parts of Latin Amer ica. Accreditation ensures that students will receive a recog nized degree and that transfer credits will be accepted by other colleges and universities, Dr. Charles McCandless, asso ciate vice president for acade mic affairs, said Monday. A steering committee will be chosen this spring to begin work on a massive self-study of Texas A&M, McCandless said. The steering committee will direct and guide the progress of the study, in addition to prepar ing its own report on the future of the University, McCandless said. McCandless directed the steering committee during the 1972 self-study. Dr. R. W. Barzak, editor of the 1972 study, said, "This (accreditation) is sort of like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval on your program.” Barzak, an associate professor of English, will also edit the 1983 study. The 1983 self-study will be patterned after the study com pleted in 1972, Barzak said. More than 200 faculty, staff members and students were in volved in the 1972 study, Bar zak said. They served on 11 committees which examined the University using standards set by the association. The committees examine the University to see if the long- range goals of the University are being met and how well the administration is doing. Along with 11 standards com mittees, all colleges and depart ments within the University also complete self-studies. These documents will be avail able to the 11 standards com mittees and the steering com mittee. All the documents generated by the self-study could fill a five- foot bookshelf, Barzak said. McCandless said organiza tion of the project can be a diffi cult task for the steering com mittee. “One of the more complex problems that we have is how to coordinate it (the University self-study) with the standards committees and the depart mental committees and the col lege committees,” McCandless said. Barzak said the entire study project takes approximately two years to complete. After the self-study is com pleted, a team will be chosen by the Southern Association of Col leges and Schools. This team will visit the University, evalu ate the University’s work and submit its recommendations to the association. The association will use the University self-study and the report from the visiting team to decide whether to renew accre ditation for Texas A&M. “The major established insti tutions like Texas A&M are in very little danger of losing their accreditation,” Barzak said. If accreditation is granted, a one-year follow-up report and a five-year interim report will have to be completed and sub mitted to the association. These reports will detail what the Uni versity is doing in response to the recommendations from the association and the visiting team, McCandless said. Study committees formed Twelve standards committees will be involved in the self-study of Texas A&M University. These committees will compare the University with standards established by the Southern Associa tion of Colleges and Schools. The studies will be done by faculty, staff and students of Texas A&M. The twelve committes are: 1. The Steering Committee 2. Committee on Purpose 3. Committee on Organization and Administra tion 4. Committee on Educational Program 5. Committee on Financial Resources 6. Committee on Faculty 7. Committee on the Library 8. Committee on Student Personnel 9. Committee on the Physical Plant 10. Committee on Special Activities 11. Committee on Graduate Programs 12. Committee on Research Each committee will prepare a report to be submitted to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In addition to these 12 reports, each college and each department within each college will submit their own self-study to the standards com mittees. STOCK* i Iranians at Texas A&M are OK’d by Immigration By GWEN HAM Battalion Reporter The hostage crisis may have been pushed to the back of many U S. citizens’ minds, but Iranian students are still the target of a 15 month-old nationwide crackdown by the Immigration and Naturali zation Service. Immigration service figures show that between Nov. 11, 1979, after the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and Feb. 2, 1981, more than 60,000 Iranian students nationwide have been in terviewed to verify their academic status. any deportation orders. “All Iranian students, about 75 at the time, at Texas A&M were interviewed around December of 1979,” said Mostafa Mostafavi, president of Texas A&M’s Iranian Student Assocation. A&M dropped from 75 students to about 52 students this year, but Mostafavi said he believes that the students who left did so only be cause they had finished their edu cation at Texas A&M. “Most students understood their reason — the Immigration Service said that diplomatic rela tions with Iran had been broken and the interviews were just part of their policy. I don’t know about the others but it didn’t make me mad,” Mostafavi said. Deportation hearings are still proceeding against 3,008 Iranians. And 2,887 who were facing expul- shaking fists < sion have applied for political asy lum — postponing their depar- Besty. The raidf ture, at least for the moment, lore strain on b according to a INS release, colonies. Here If But in the meantime Iranian ituation is Mant students at Texas A&M Universi- national desk. ty. having completed their inter- i lews, appear to have escaped the outlook is “The Immigration Service came over here, but I can’t really re member that much, except that they took pictures of each of us,” he said. “They already had all the information about our proper visas and etcetera in their files. Mostafavi said he wasn’t fright ened by the interviews. “Not at A&M — if someone hasn’t done something wrong, why should he be scared?” he said. Enrollment of Iranians at Texas Charles Homstein, Texas A&M Immigration Coordinator, said that all Texas A&M Iranian stu dents were correctly document ed. Several were sent to San An tonio for further questioning but they all came out OK, he said; None were deported. Still the Iranian students are the targets of hostility. Mostafavi said that on campus he really hasn’t noticed any worsening in attitudes since the hostage release. But the overall attitudes of people off campus to ward Iranians has deteriorated, he said. He declined to clarify what he meant. “It’s very unfortunate and I don’t like to draw any type of con clusions,” he said. it may now order. If that kf led conflict will k ittles being won®; n.) Marvin. Therein! onies to growth achieve immedil Id break out at an) way it was, D® t, Tass. If this k st of it. iboratory newspaper l* nd photography jnieations. ring any editorial m# 1 )LICY ot exceed 350 wont it if they are longer A edit letters for style a*, to maintain the autW igned, show the atW e also welcome, and* 1 constraints as letter mdence to: Editor, Eexas A&M Univer# during Texas A&M's^ loliday and examiiul*! | 75 per semester, 0* year. Advertising r> ,l! 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