Steering Committee
Date: December 20, 2005
Time: 11:00 am
Location: AS 201
Meeting called by: Kate Steffens and Kurt Helgeson
Note Taker: Holly Evers
Attendees: K. Helgeson, K. Steffens, S. Cogdill, A. Schoenberger, M. Larson, R. Stenseng, S. Clark, M. Spitzer, B. Wilson, L. Foss, J. Kilborn, H. Evers
Agenda
- Announcements by K. Steffens- There is a new Student Government Association President named Dana Kutcher. Chairs will contact her about committee work.
- NCA Focus group dates (K. Steffens)
- Feb. 2, 2006- Student Focus Group. Several individuals questioned the efficacy of using an advertisement to recruit students; the group should have more “focus” to be effective. A. Schoenberger and L. Foss recommended that the students be separated into tables by their year (Freshman, Sophomore, etc.). They also recommended that students be targeted with an invitation- although, the group from each year could still be randomly generated. K. Helgeson read a sample of the types of questions the students will discuss. It was agreed that the co-chairs would bring up the focus group session at the next NCA Chair’s meeting on January 17, 2006, so that the committees might generate more questions before the focus group meets. Annette Day, from Graduate Studies, has an SCSU student list-serve. Undecided as to whether graduate students should be included in this first focus group, or if they should have an entirely separate meeting date and time; would we want entirely different information from them? M Spitzer asked what the goals of the focus group are. Are we, the NCA team at large, more concerned with student participation, or are we interested in gathering information from them?
- Other campus-outreach efforts (faculty and staff)
- Feb. 8, 2006- Reception
- March 14, 2006- Luncheon
- April 12,2006- Breakfast
- The last three focus group (b-d respectively) are for faculty and staff. They will be discussing the last three of the four themes found in Chapter three, section three of the HLC Handbook.
- Communications Update-
- Posters and brochures are at Printing Services. We hope to have the posters on bulletin boards around campus for the beginning of the Spring Semester in January.
- We are also planning on producing a monthly Newsletter on the NCA process until the NCA visit in the Fall of 2007. It will be sent via interoffice mail to all faculty and staff. M. Spitzer recommended that the Newsletter be produced more frequently as we get closer to the visit. J. Kilborn recommended keeping the Newsletter to the one sheet (front and back). As with the posters, we would like to have the first Newsletter out by the beginning of the Spring semester.
- K. Steffens and K. Helgeson are giving a presentation to MSUAASF today at 12pm. They will continue in their outreach efforts to meet with all bargaining units .They will also look into giving regular updates to the IFO and other units as the NCA self-study process progresses.
- NCA Annual Meeting (K. Steffens). March 31- April 4, 2006 in Chicago. Trying to finalize the list of NCA Committee members who will attend. The co-chairs are beginning with those who did not attend the NCA Conference last year. The Steering Committee was asked for recommendations. B. Wilson did not attend last year and would be interested in attending this year.
- Survey Update- (K. Helgeson). Have finalized the questions and has met with David Robinson from Statistics and Michelle Hammes from the Survey Center. Will be submitting them to LR&TS, who will then develop an electronic version of the survey. As with many of the communications tools, K. Helgeson is hoping to have the survey ready at the beginning of the Spring Semester.
- Writing Team- update by K. Steffens. We currently have a team of four people together. K. Helgeson gave a brief update on the state of the committee work; about 40% of them are writing the “narrative”. The other committees will be finishing up their questions at the beginning of the semester. We will begin presenting the “narratives” to the campus at large in the Spring. The writing team will then use those narratives to construct the Self Study document.
- Report Inventory
- Syllabus and Curriculum Vita
- Various Meeting Minutes
- Committee lists
- The committee reviewed the report inventory. Very uncertain about how many syllabi and CVs to gather- all or a sampling? K. Steffens will ask John Taylor and Steve Ludwig for additional information. Some of the items on the Report Inventory are unavailable because they do not exist (eg- the President’s Council Minutes requested by the Governance Committee).
- Spring Semester Meeting day and time (K. Steffens). All agreed that alternating Tuesdays at 11 am would fit their schedules.
Additional Information
Next meeting: January 2006 at 11am in AS 201
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