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After review,
. University is
reaccredited

Two-year review
process yields
expected results
By KYLE SWANSON
Daily News Editor
More than two years after work
began on preparing for the Univer-
sity's decennial reaccreditation,
officials have announced that the Uni-
versity has received the final stamp of
approval from its accrediting agency.
The Higher Learning Commission
of the North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools released notice
of the University's reaccreditation
earlier this month in a letter to Univer-
sity President Mary Sue Coleman. The
notice comes after a site team visited
the campus this spring to study and
evaluate the University in five core
areas - fulfillment of the its mission,
its preparedness for the future, the
overall classroom experience, engage-
ment of students outside of the class-
room and application of knowledge.
The site committee then composed
a report that was sent to its govern-
ing board, which officially accepted
the recommendation to reaccredit the
University earlier this summer.
Having been an accredited institu-
tion of higher education since 1913,
the University's reaccreditation was
not believed to pose any problems by

either the HLC or University admin-
istrators.
Earlier this year, former Univer-
sity Provost Teresa Sullivan, who will
assume the presidency at the Univer-
sity of Virginia in August, told The
Michigan Daily she wasn't concerned
about the University not being reac-
credited.
"I'm really not worried about us
being reaccredited, but it is important
to me for us to use this opportunity
and not just treat it as one more thing
we've got to do, but really take advan-
tage of it," Sullivan said in January,
explaining that the University would
also conduct a specialized self-study.
A reaccreditation self-study is com-
monly requested of large schools like
the University that are expected to be
reaccredited without incident. The
study focuses on a self-selected area
and is meant to explore how the Uni-
versity could advance within a given
area.
Ten years ago, the University
focused its self-study on interdis-
ciplinary studies. Following the
self-study, University officials have
focused on creating greater collabora-
tions between academic units in many
ways, including the implementation
of the president's Interdisciplinary
Junior Faculty Initiative - which has
committed the University to hiring
100 interdisciplinary junior faculty
members over the past three years.
See REACCREDITATION, Page 7

JAKE FROMM/Daily
Former University police officer Charles Beatty Ill appears at a preliminary hearing at the Washtenaw County District Court.
Former1PS officer
tracked prior to arrest

University police
documents reveal
details of arrest
By DEVON THORSBY
Daily News Editor
Former University police officer
Charles Beatty III, who is currently
facing charges for cocaine posses-
sion, was followed for over a month
by narcotics officers prior to his
arrest, according to the police report
of his case compiled by the Michi-
gan State Police.

Beatty is currently being charged
with one count of possession of less
than 25 grams of cocaine and one
count of an open container in a vehi-
cle, pertaining to his arrest while
off-duty on Jan. 13. If convicted,
Beatty could face up to four years in
prison, or a fine of $25,000.
According to the police report, the
Livingston and Washtenaw Narcot-
ics Enforcement Team's Major Case
Team received a tip around Nov. 18,
2009 that alleged Beatty had pur-
chased cocaine. Because the tip
involved a University police officer,
LAWNET officials contacted the
Department of Public Safety, who

asked for the narcotics team's assis-
tance in verifyingthe information.
The report also revealed that
LAWNET officers, who placed a
GPS device on Beatty's car, followed
him on multiple occasions, begin-
ning on Dec. 1, 2009 and ending the
night of his arrest.
The surveillance included follow-
ing Beatty while he was off-duty,
and recording his whereabouts
when he would leave his house.
The report stated that the sur-
veillance of Beatty in his car on the
night of Jan. 13 led to the call to have
Ypsilanti police pull over his car.
See DPS, Page 8

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