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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Olin Conference Room, 8:30am
Meeting Minutes
Members
present: Aileen Buslig (Chair), Kay Schneider, Michael Wohlfeil, Gregg
Muilenburg, Haimeng Zhang, Lynne Isaacson, Whitney Frahm, Marion Askegaard
- Welcome from Aileen,
followed by introductions from committee members.
- Aileen made a request
for a volunteer to record meeting minutes. Marion agreed.
- The mini-grant budget
was discussed. Kay indicated that the budget was nearly depleted for this
academic year. She handed out the guidelines for requesting funds
questioning whether we should alter the guidelines. Committee discussion
included suggestions for favoring departments who do not have fully
established assessment plans, favoring departments that have not requested
or received mini-grant funds before, shifting funds from other budgets to
assessment mini-grant budget, reducing the maximum grant award, encouraging
more departments to attend the assessment summer workshop, and encouraging
departments to budget for their own standardized assessment tests versus
relying on mini-grant funds for a standard test.
- Kay will check into
resubmitting the enrichment grant request for assessment. It was originally
submitted and rejected last year.
- A fall assessment
banquet was revisited as it was a suggestion from the committee last spring.
The committee agreed that a fall banquet was not necessary in light of all
of the other assessment gathering opportunities this academic year (ie.
Assessment dinner discussions with the Dean throughout the year, a banquet
for all Inquiry Seminar instructors in January).
- The plan and process
for reviewing department annual reports was discussed. The committee agreed
to use the same rubric as was used by this committee last year to evaluate
the department annual reports. The entire committee will respond to one
specific department annual report to get started, in an attempt to better
standardize our response format. All of the other submitted reports will be
divided amongst committee members to be reviewed. All reports and responses
will be sent back and forth electronically.
- There was a brief
discussion of the upcoming national wide data base profiling colleges as a
tool for students/parents in making decisions about choosing colleges. There
was indication that Concordia will be headed that direction, but it will
take many years to develop/implement (the CLA and new Academic Profile will
be part of that data).
- The next Assessment
Committee meeting will be Tuesday, October 10th at 8:30am in the
Olin Center conference room.
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2006-2007
Assessment Committee Members |
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Aileen Buslig,
CSTA, Assessment Committee Chair
buslig@cord.edu
Marion Askegaard,
Health/PE/Exercise Science maskegaa@cord.edu
Whitney Frahm,
Student
Representative
wafrahm@cord.edu
Lynne Isaacson,
Sociology
isaacson@cord.edu
Gregg Muilenburg,
Division Chair (Core/Integration Studies)
muilenbu@cord.edu
Jasi O’Connor,
Residence Life
oconnor@cord.edu
Kay Schneider,
Director of Assessment & Institutional Research schneide@cord.edu
Michael
Wohlfeil,
Education
wohlfeil@cord.edu
Haimeng Zhang,
Math/Computer Science
zhang@cord.edu
First-year Class
Representative (pending)
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Marion Askegaard, Recorder
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