Yes, the sound of contentment as one lies back and relaxes, the long and slow exhalation of breath that comes from knowing the compliance report has been collated, packed, shipped, and received at each location.

After that unfortunate incident whereby UPS managed to misplace a package from a vendor in San Francisco, the very vendor who was re-creating the binder index tabs for the notebooks - it is good to know it all came together.

Serenity, Simon, Mona, Rhonda and I went to Kinko’s/Fed Ex on Thursday last to put the finishing touches on it all and ship it out.  That done, we convened at TGIF’s for a light lunch before returning to pickup the tracking information on the 12 or 13 packages.  We headed back south to campus and spent a few last hours putting the finishing touches on the website (well, Simon did that).  And we all left Friday to spend a week-end away from the dreaded report that has occupied so much of our time over the last 18 months.

So now we get to re-focus on the QEP while the reviewers spend the next 2 weeks reviewing the UT Dallas response to the principles of accreditation.

Next milestone:  The external reviewers convene in Atlanta in November to identify potential areas for focused reports.

But for now, I’m back at the desk working on the myriad other things that have had to slide for the last couple of weeks.  Once I’m “caught up” (as if that’s really possible), I may start to feel human again.

And for all those who helped make this thing really come together, THANK YOU!

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