Dr. Thomas E. Corts

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  Thomas E. Corts

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  Published on: 3/3/2007    Last Visited: 3/3/2007  

  former Chancellor Thomas Corts released to work force development on his last day in that role.
  
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  The board met in emergency session to name a new chancellor after Corts abruptly resigned Wednesday.Some members of the school board, which currently supervises K-12 schools and two-year colleges, had criticized Corts' communication skills and his public suggestion that oversight of two-year colleges be given to a different body.

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  The State Board of Education and interim Chancellor Thomas Corts had fundamental differences about cleaning up the two-year college mess. ...

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  Published on: 3/5/2007    Last Visited: 3/5/2007  

  The State Board of Education and the chancellor, Thomas Corts, owe the taxpayers of the state action concerning the scandal in the two-year college system.

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  Thomas Corts, President Emeritus, Samford University

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  Published on: 3/8/2007    Last Visited: 3/8/2007  

  State school board members, who complained they didn't know former interim Chancellor Thomas Corts committed nearly $20 million to work-force training, received a list of projects in December showing the money was going to the training, system records show.
  
  Corts, in a Dec. 14 meeting, gave board members a list of projects funded with $57 million in discretionary money, including $20 million "budgeted for work-force training," according to the board materials distributed that day.Board members also approved minutes last month from that Dec. 14 meeting, in which Corts is described as explaining the discretionary spending and giving all board members a list of projects.
  
  The issue of Corts' committing money to work-force training surfaced last week because board members complained that he hastily transferred the funds to other agencies.Corts resigned abruptly last Wednesday, the same day the system's commitments for training funds were finalized, records show.
  
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  But state records, which board members had last week, show Corts did not agree to transfer nearly 90 percent of the $20 million to other agencies.Instead, he required that the training money remain in the two-year system and be distributed only with requests for payments after expenses were approved as "qualified work-force development costs."
  
  State records also show that Corts and his staff had been working for months on the training commitments, and told board members about it in the December meeting.

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  Published on: 3/22/2007    Last Visited: 3/22/2007  

  But acting Chancellor Thomas Corts resigned just before the Feb. 22 state board meeting when a decision was expected.Since there was no chancellor to recommend one of the three, the deadline wasn't met she said.
  
  "Therefore I will have no recommendation to make to you on [Thursday] for a president at Snead State Community College," Culverhouse's memorandum said.She declined comment through a spokesperson.
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  Corts said he was not pleased with any of the three finalists, and he didn't have a personal agenda but wasn't pleased with the situation as a whole," Bell said.
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  A search was conducted but local objections against one candidate, Snead State vice president Allen Champion, surfaced and Corts reopened the search a second time.

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  Published on: 8/13/2002    Last Visited: 6/28/2008  

  Dr. Thomas E. Corts, president of Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform, noted how far this issue has come in just two years.Not only were both major gubernatorial candidates calling for constitutional change, he said, but also many leading organizations were adding their support for reform.
  
  Corts made his remarks as Commencement speaker at the University of Alabama Monday.While ACCR favors the convention method, he said, the need for change and renewal is so great, so crucial to the future of Alabama that we accept and applaud support the cause, however reform might be attained.
  
  He said that many Alabamians were properly blaming the 1901Constitution for providing a poor foundation for the state's progress.Citizens are worn down by a century of wrestling with the constitution's failures and by the unending call for change.
  
  He noted that the University could take great pride that both major gubernatorial candidates were its graduates and that they both embraced the need for major constitutional change.
  
  ACCR is a non-partisan group that focuses on grassroots activism.It promoted legislation in the last legislative session that would have allowed voters to decide whether to call a constitutional convention.
  
  Corts, who is president of Samford University in Birmingham, has led ACCR since its inception at a rally in Tuscaloosa on April 7, 2000.

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  Published on: 9/24/2007    Last Visited: 10/21/2007  

  Albert Brewer to Dr. Tom Corts, former Samford University president, for his early leadership and continued support of the ACCR Foundation.
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  Corts, along with Thomson, founded the ACCR Foundation in 2000.

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  Published on: 10/15/2008    Last Visited: 1/1/2008  

  Corts Announces
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  MONTGOMERY - Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform (ACCR) Chairman Thomas E. Corts announced plans today for an old-fashioned, statewide bus tour promoting constitutional reform before the upcoming November elections.ACCR's yellow school bus, Reform One, will make its debut at a rally in the Black Belt community of Marion, Alabama on Oct. 16.The tour will culminate with a rally in Montgomery on November 4, 2002.
  
  "We're taking our message of reform directly to the people," said Corts.
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  "Passage of Amendment One on November 5th is non-controversial," said Corts.

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