Steering Committee
Date: April 25, 2006
Time: 11:00 am
Location: AS 201
Meeting called by: Kurt Helgeson
Note Taker: Holly Evers
Attendees: K. Helgeson, H. Evers, D. Wogen, A. Schoenberger, M. Rubinstein, J. Kilborn, M. Spitzer
Agenda
- Chicago Recap
- 18 attendees
- Reviewed what attendees learned at a “debriefing” held on April 13th
- Drs Spitzer, Helgeson, and Steffens gave a well received and attended presentation on our self-study process
- Discovered during the course of the conference that SCSU off-site degree programs are not covered by our current HLC accreditation
- Feedback from Steering Committee members
- All have tried to encourage participation amongst their colleagues, but colleagues are generally daunted by the amount of information on the feedback website.
- Dr. Spitzer encouraged students with whom he has met to provide feedback
- Concern over duplication of work for data. Need to address a permanent process for future
- Timeline for writing self-study
- Created cooperatively with the writing team given the deadlines provided by HLC.
- A. Schoenberger suggested writing in pairs to save time editing and to achieve the singular voice for the self study.
- Outline of the self-study- first draft was reviewed.
- A few corrections and additions were made
- Per M. Rubinstein, the rational progression of criterions is not necessarily in the order in which they are presented. He learned at the HLC Conference that it should actually be: 1,5,3,4,2.
- Update on campus feedback
- Received 15-20 comments per week/criterion
- Have had to postpone criterion five for an extra week due to a committee chair’s illness. Will post it, the final criterion, on Monday, May 1st.
- Update on the role of the committees and chairs:
- Chairs have been asked to complete written summaries for each component that their committee covered.
- They have also been given a spreadsheet for supporting data and evidence to fill out.
Additional Information
Next meeting: Fall 2006
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