Regents name committee to review policies

Clarendon College Regents appointed a committee to make policy recommendation to the board when they met in regular session last Thursday, January 16.

CC Interim President Tex Buckhaults said the committee will be looking at policies related to conflicts of interest of board members and other issues with the board’s governance of the college that is concerning to the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC).

A special SACS-COC committee is expected to conduct an on-site evaluation of the college this spring after the accrediting body determined last summer that CC had “failed to demonstrate compliance” with a core requirement and three standards set by the agency.

Regents Darlene Spier, Susie Shields, and Carey Wann will serve on the board’s policy committee, and Buckhaults said the committee will have to follow the requirements of the Texas Open Meetings Act, including posting an agenda 72 hours before meeting, holding discussions in public, and keeping minutes of its proceedings.

In other business, regents ratified the hiring of Julissa Morrow as an administrative assistant in Clarendon and Tessa Hoffman as an administrative assistant in Childress as well as the reassignments of Cindy Lambert as assistant to the president, Michael Metcalf as accountant, Spencer Shields as bookstore manager, and Donna Smith as librarian/webmaster/social media.