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Post by aggiejazz on May 1, 2007 7:41:56 GMT -5
Parents of prospective incoming freshmen have been complaining about not getting financial packages from A&T. There have been calls the past three weeks resulting in different responses. The responses range from "we will mail them out in a week" to "we are currently in the process of moving" to "we do not have some or all of your records" even though one parent have said they sent every thing and have copies of what they sent. The parent also have already received the financial packages from other colleges that had accepted her son for the upcoming year.
A family member of mine has received her financial packages two weeks ago from the three colleges that accepted her. Two of the three were NCCU and ECU.
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Post by Bigboy on May 1, 2007 7:55:11 GMT -5
What happened to Hackley improving things at A&T? ?
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Post by DOOMS on May 1, 2007 10:21:56 GMT -5
It didn't take one year to get bad. Didja think he was gonna come in and wave a magic wand and make it all better?
If you e-mail him and bring it to his attention it won't happen again. If you don't, it will.
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Post by AggieMike on May 1, 2007 14:56:36 GMT -5
I know a lot of people need to enunciate because it's the REGISTRAR not the REGISTER, those are the only calls we get and we can't transfer people
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Post by aggiejazz on May 1, 2007 17:01:28 GMT -5
Thanks Mike
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Post by Bigboy on May 2, 2007 8:38:23 GMT -5
Hackley came in here talking as if he did have a magic wand, promising to make everything better. There is not one college or business that is perfect. Every institution has problems, they just don't go to the press and air their dirty laundry. I don't think A&T is in as bad a shape as it has been portrayed by so many. Sure A&T has problems but we have strenghts too. Why have we not shine a light on our strenghts and positive things that are going on at A&T?
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Post by DOOMS on May 2, 2007 15:02:20 GMT -5
I don't think A&T is in as bad a shape as it has been portrayed by so many. ...and that's the problem. Nobody "thinks" we're in bad shape. I heard rumors and I asked professors and employees and they were confirmed. Hackley had an open house and invited people to come and view a powerpoint presentation on it and nobody shows up. It's bad. It ain't gotta stay bad but so long as it's sugarcoated it will be bad. That doesn't mean we don't highlight the positive. It means we need to quit ignoring the reality.
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Post by Aggie One on May 2, 2007 19:01:21 GMT -5
Let's look objectively at the situation. Hackley has been relatively ineffective, pissed off a lot of alumni with many of his public self serving and sometimes exaggerated statements about the school shortcomings as if he were the great emancipator riding in on a white horse to save the day so he didn't get much response from the alumni on open house day.
Most Aggies generally don't trust the local press (N&R) so he didn't do himself any favors.
To put it simply, everyone knew he wouldn't be the man once graduation rolled around. Battle is. Hackley was viewed as a mere caretaker, nothing more.
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Post by truthseeker on May 5, 2007 9:02:05 GMT -5
are things as bad as hackley says.... i don't know.... but if the bad decision making by our AD is any reflection of university policy as a whole... i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. hell i don't know anything about battle but i do know this... if he lets these people who are doing a&t nothing but harm smooze up & charm their way into his good graces & does nothing to get these people out of here.... we will be headed toward destruction.... just like texas so.!!! there are people at a&t who need to be gone... plain & simple... they are cancers!!! the people who should be working at a&t are the ones who will strive to achieve her greatness.... there aren't a lot of schools out there who has graduated admirals & generals in our militaries... state senators & legislators... us congressmen & presidential candidates.... astronauts & mit scholars... etc... etc... the list goes on & on.... a&t is one unique institution that stands for something.... what hackley is saying if we don't stand up & make sure a&t is all that she is suppose to be.... then who will? ?
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Post by da heretic on May 5, 2007 11:19:21 GMT -5
Damn!
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Post by aggiebred09 on May 5, 2007 22:06:09 GMT -5
Hackley came in here talking as if he did have a magic wand, promising to make everything better. There is not one college or business that is perfect. Every institution has problems, they just don't go to the press and air their dirty laundry. I don't think A&T is in as bad a shape as it has been portrayed by so many. Sure A&T has problems but we have strenghts too. Why have we not shine a light on our strenghts and positive things that are going on at A&T? That's exactly what Rennick did and part of the reason why were in a mess now. If the negative was never shown we would have rotted away from the Inside out...Look at FAMU and Howard, for years they bragged about being the best and the brightest. Now FAM's engineering dept is owned by the State of Florida. I'm glad we looked behind the curtain to see what was going on. I'm not for airing out our dirty laundry to the public, but were "Big Boys" now (No pun intended BB) almost reaching 11,000. We just can crap in our pants and expect no one to notice to frown, we gotta grunt and clean this Shyt up...Literally.
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Post by Bigboy on May 7, 2007 8:56:27 GMT -5
Exactly what mess are we in? I keep hearing people say that A&T is falling apart. Is it because students are not graduating in 4 years or is it because students are not getting their financial packages on time? I say again, what is going on that has people saying that A&T is a mess? ?
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Post by Maxell on May 7, 2007 11:32:30 GMT -5
Tx Southern is a 'mess'. We are just a 'situation' waiting on a permanent leader.
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Post by aggiejazz on May 7, 2007 12:44:25 GMT -5
A&T's Financial Aid Office still has not sent out all of its financial aid packages to incoming freshmen but the School of Engineer can notify incoming freshman about its financial assistance.
A&T is doing a lot of good things but that doesn't discount the bad when the bad concerns normal operations of running a office. A&T has done a very good job of errecting nice buildings for its students. Much better than Alabama State University.
Saturday, May 05, 2007 Josh Moon, Montgomery Advertiser
New coach, new contract for the president, new lawsuit and same old nonsense.
Let's take it from the top.
Reggie Barlow's no longer the interim head coach. He's THE head coach. Not exactly shocking to anyone, I'm sure. After all, he was Elton Dean's lifelong friend. That's qualification enough. That was probably a little too harsh on Barlow. But I'm in awkward position here. I think Barlow's a bad choice at this time and I think he was chosen for all the wrong reasons. But at the same time, I really like the guy, I sincerely hope he beats the odds and has more than his share of success and I think, at some point, he'll be a really, really good head coach. There's no doubt in my mind that Barlow's going to relate well with the players and fans. He's a laid-back, easy-going guy with a good sense of humor and the rare ability to not take himself too seriously. If you don't like him as a person, there's something wrong with you. And if you spend only a few minutes talking football with him, you realize pretty quickly that he's passionate about the game, loves ASU and will do whatever it takes to get ahead. You've got to respect that, and I do. But on the other hand, I'm not sure he can be successful at ASU. Not now. I've already gone through the reasons why I feel that way so I'm not going to go through them again. I'll just wish him luck, because he's gonna need it.
On to the president's new contract.
In his tenure as president, Joe Lee has failed a review (seriously, he failed. They might've called it "scored poorly," but in college terms, that equals failing). He's led the school through one of the ugliest, most shameful farces in the history of college athletics and played an active role in tarnishing a man who had done nothing wrong. He's presided over an administration that has seen three senior-level employees busted in the past six months for theft. He's presided over a finance department that's watched millions upon millions of dollars go missing, paid almost a million dollars in bank overdraft fees and accepted every invoice from the school's only money-generating facility despite the fact that all of those invoices violated university policy -- the same university policy that had been put in place only a couple of years earlier after the same people in charge of the same facility had been caught issuing illegal invoices. He's repeatedly lied to employees, the media, alumni and the Board of Trustees. He's allowed good teachers and administrators to be run off because some powerful people on the Board had personal vendettas to tend to. While he's placed the blame for employees' actions on their immediate supervisors, he's never -- NOT ONCE -- accepted responsibility for any of the illegal, immoral or just plain despicable actions of the upper-level employees he oversees or for his own shady actions. And as the Board of Trustees was meeting on Friday, the ABI, FBI, campus police, the Public Examiner's office, the Attorney General's office and the NCAA were conducting three separate investigations on ASU's campus. And for that, Joe Lee gets another two years and a vote of confidence from the chairman. Congratulations, Mr. President, you ... uh ... earned it?Funny how the various chairmen of ASU's Board of Trustees always seem to love this guy. I wonder why.
Now, the new lawsuit.
I am not a court of law. I'm not a jury. I'm not a judge. But I do have a tiny shred of common sense. And using that small shred, let me say this: ASU will be paying Gil Berry and Marous Brothers Construction. Are all of you out of your minds? These guys did 10 months of work for you. You're still using the plans and models they provided. And you don't think you have to pay them for that? I won't get into the allegations of kickbacks and whatnot, but I will say that there were a whole bunch of details provided along with those allegations. Unless there's a big settlement somewhere, I don't see this going away any time soon. I spoke with Gil Berry on Friday. He has quite a few additional documents and statements, some of which he's shown me. I'm not going to jump out here and say I believe one side or the other. But I will say that there needs to be some really good answers provided or those guys who are combing through the accounting department right now -- the ones wearing windbreakers with the three letters stenciled on the back -- they'll be the ones solving this little dispute. I really don't understand the thinking here. All the way through, this whole situation just makes no sense to me.
Wrap it up.
Those Board meetings at ASU are depressing. Sometimes they're funny, but more than anything, they're depressing. You've got 10 people (oh, wait, make that 11, since Lemack is apparently showing up for meetings now) and everyone is shooting for an angle, trying to make sure they get the upper hand on the other guy. It took an hour to approve the agenda on Friday. There were two executive sessions. The simplest of items took major discussion. But the worst part about those meetings -- the most depressing part -- is the fact that very few people seem interested in the good of ASU first. Being on that Board, to most members, is a way to make money for themselves. If ASU happens to benefit, well, that's good. If not, too bad. You want an example? Look at the dorm project. Now, I'm not making a claim that certain people made money, but I can tell you that changing out the construction manager and construction company had absolutely nothing to do with what was in the best interest of the students or the school. The first four dorm buildings, of the six to be renovated, would have been finished by the end of the fall semester -- THIS YEAR. And it would've been done inside of ASU's budget. But now, because some people at the school allowed personal relationships or personal gain to enter the equation, those dorms very likely won't be completed within the budget and the first two aren't scheduled to be completed until the summer -- OF 2008. As it stands right now, a year and a half after the Board approved the renovations, there hasn't been one brick put in place. During Friday's Board meeting, one of the trustees, prior to voting on the president's new extension, told Lee that leadership for the school starts at the top. And that's true -- leadership at every university starts at the top. But the president, especially ASU's president, isn't at the top. The trustees are. And considering their actions of late, that's depressing.
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Post by aggiejazz on May 7, 2007 13:01:43 GMT -5
I am not saying everything at A&T is bad and I know not everything will be 100 percent efficent. I am just saying there are serious warning signs. There are things that have to be corrected and there have to be long range plans to address some of these ills.
A&T is not under duress to plan just to survive for the next semester like in the days of old so there is no excuse to have a lot of minor failures in the university's normal operations in 2007. If A&T can't address the little things then they are sorely handicapped to handle the big problems.
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