This year Ball State received the honor of reaccreditation; avital honor to hold for any self-respecting university. This week,the DAILY NEWS has been printing a series of reaccreditationupdates in regards to the suggestions and issues thereaccreditation team had while reviewing Ball State this pastspring.
One of the biggest improvements mentioned was communication.
Ball State recently introduced a new governance process, onethat was needed to help the university gain this lastestaccreditation. Such a restructure of the governing body can dowonders for the flow of upper-level university communications. Tothe school's credit, the new structuring has been implemented, butit is still far from perfect.
With a new president presiding, it may be too soon to critizethe way things are running. Even President Jo Ann Gora said that itwas too early, but by the end of the year she will betterunderstand the flow of communication within the university.
However, one would think that if the university's communicationssystem was truly in top shape, Gora would not need until the end ofthe year to figure out how well it is working.
Ball State needs to make sure that its communication lines staywide open to input from all sources, especially those close orinside the university's managing offices.
Many of the reaccreditation team's other suggestions includedconsistent internal feedback reports and evaluations to better theschool's communication and overall managing. These tools couldprove heavily beneficial to the school should it use the resultinginformation wisely and promptly.
If Ball State takes advantage of this advice, it would allow theschool's task forces and executives, as well as futureaccreditation teams, to focus on bigger and better things.
And it all starts with a little communication.
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