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Have you ever heard of the compliment sandwich?  It's when you take criticism and sandwich it nicely between a complement and a jovial approach to fixing the problem.  Since Kean took down some of the documents we've linked to in other posts, here's what I'm going to term the Kean Compliment Sandwich Document.

Here's some of the meat—their words, not mine.  Let's call it the TBK Top-10: 

1:  The allocation of resources is not linked to formal planning and assessment processes

2:  Debt per student is $35,645, about 2.8 times the median for A3 rated institutions

3:  The University functions without a University-wide assessment plan

4:  There are significant problems in the dissemination of information from the administration, President, and Vice Presidents to faculty and staff

5: The administration has usurped the role of the faculty in academic program maintenance

6:  Lack in diversity of executive staff

7:  No formal written criteria for tenure or promotion and apparently arbitrary processes as a result

8:  The Office of Financial Aid does not recognize its role in increasing the graduation rates of students

9:  The burdens placed on faculty that impede their professional development have become unsustainable even though increased teaching loads have been met by substantially increasing the adjunct/faculty ratio during the past five years

10: Advisement practices do not provide students the guidance they desire either about degree completion or career development:  Too often students unknowingly complete courses out of sequence due to lack of explanation and knowledge


(Read the Report Here)