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Moss presents at College Board conference
Mar 6, 2009 12:00 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
Sam Moss (’63), dean of college guidance, was a conference presenter at The College Board's Southern Regional Forum in Atlanta Feb. 18-20. His session was titled, "Ethical Issues in College Admissions."
In this interactive session, participants and panelists - including Barbara Polk of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jean Jordan of Emory University, Kay Holleman of Gainesville High School and J. Carey Thompson of Centre College (Ky.) - discussed current ethical issues in college admissions and ways to solve them.
“As the landscape of college admissions constantly changes - becoming increasingly more complex, complicated and unpredictable - grey areas are also increasing,” Moss said. "It is not always as simple to define 'right' and 'wrong.' More often, it seems that policies and practices are developed by putting institutional needs at the forefront even though they may be at odds or in conflict with what is truly best for our students. This has raised an increasing number of ethical issues in the way we all do our jobs."
A past president of the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling, Moss has served that organization in a number of capacities over the last 20 years, including chairman of the Ethics Committee and serving as delegate to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), which he also served as an Executive Board member. In addition, he has served as chairman of the Admissions and Guidance Assembly of the College Board and as a member of The College Board’s Regional Council, on the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, and on the Admissions Advisory Committees at both the University of Georgia and at the University of Miami. In 2002, Moss was named the first recipient of SACAC’s Larry West Award for outstanding contributions to the admissions counseling profession and leadership within that profession.
Following his graduation from Darlington in 1963, Moss received degrees from University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.) and Jacksonville University (Fla.), as well as doing additional study at Oxford University in England. He served at Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, as a teacher and administrator for 15 years before returning to Darlington in 1982.
In this interactive session, participants and panelists - including Barbara Polk of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jean Jordan of Emory University, Kay Holleman of Gainesville High School and J. Carey Thompson of Centre College (Ky.) - discussed current ethical issues in college admissions and ways to solve them.
“As the landscape of college admissions constantly changes - becoming increasingly more complex, complicated and unpredictable - grey areas are also increasing,” Moss said. "It is not always as simple to define 'right' and 'wrong.' More often, it seems that policies and practices are developed by putting institutional needs at the forefront even though they may be at odds or in conflict with what is truly best for our students. This has raised an increasing number of ethical issues in the way we all do our jobs."
A past president of the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling, Moss has served that organization in a number of capacities over the last 20 years, including chairman of the Ethics Committee and serving as delegate to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), which he also served as an Executive Board member. In addition, he has served as chairman of the Admissions and Guidance Assembly of the College Board and as a member of The College Board’s Regional Council, on the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, and on the Admissions Advisory Committees at both the University of Georgia and at the University of Miami. In 2002, Moss was named the first recipient of SACAC’s Larry West Award for outstanding contributions to the admissions counseling profession and leadership within that profession.
Following his graduation from Darlington in 1963, Moss received degrees from University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.) and Jacksonville University (Fla.), as well as doing additional study at Oxford University in England. He served at Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, as a teacher and administrator for 15 years before returning to Darlington in 1982.
