NCA Chair's Committee
Meeting Notes
March 27 , 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m
St. Cloud State University
Headley Hall 114
Meeting called by: Kate Steffens and Kurt Helgeson
Note taker: Holly Evers
Members Present : K. Helgeson, C. Imbra, K. Steffens, S. Rundquist, N. Voelz, L. Sreerama, M. Nook, D. Gazal, S. Ludwig, J.C. Turner
Agenda
- Announcements
- March 16th Student Focus group-
- Invited 260, 18 responded, 8 came
- Rich conversation
- Help from 2 graduate students
- April 12th Faculty/Staff breakfast- “The Distinctive Organization”
- Last faculty/staff focus group
- Postcard will go out Thursday morning
- Many said these meetings were a model and need to be continued in some fashion to continue to foster conversations across faculty/staff and college divides.
- April 17th- Undergrad and Grad student focus groups
- Moving towards “plan b” based upon March 16th turn-out
- Will put an ad in Chronicle inviting undergraduate participation
- Might use free i-pod as incentive, if Provost approves
- Those present were asked to announce in classroom
- M. Nook recommended using Residence Life.
- D. Gazal recommended going through Associations.
- Grad student invitation was a broadcast email to all full-time grad students. Have heard back from about 15 students.
- Feedback-
- Will send out an email at the beginning of each week inviting participation on the new set of questions
- Encourage participation amongst committee members- especially in secondary areas
- Matrix
- Evidence and Data worksheet in each committee folder in Sharepoint
- Use “Report Inventory” as an example
- Need to label each worksheet separately, so there is no confusion
- Next Steps – for committees
- Focus on data and exhibits
- Need to create folder for each committee in Documents and Reports for evidence
- Asked each committee to consider writing a summary narrative on each criterion with recommendations
- K. Steffens asked all to consider how HLC will live on.
- Ongoing committee?
- Keep tracking data
- “institutionalize the self study”
- Additional questions or comments
- L. Sreerama asked to meet the writing team at the next meeting.
- K. Steffens is still trying to add 2 people to the team. One person turned her down. Gordon Schrank is recommended by many people from COSE. Marsha Shoemaker and Marge Proell were rec’d by Steve Ludwig.
Additional Information
Next Meeting: April 10, 2006 at 12pm in HH 114
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