Meeting Minutes | April 10, 2019
Attended
- Kevin Griffith
- Jason Resler
- Kathy Ritchie
- Matt Shockey
- Yu Song
- Becky Zellers
- Lisa Zwicker
Discussion:
- Approval of “minutes” | summary of email “meeting” regarding the grant application was sent around
- Update on assessment grants (Matt)
- we expect grant applications from Gabriel Popescu in PoliSci and Gail McGuire regarding Carnegie Engaged Campus initiative
- Becky asked for clarification about what grants are for; we briefly reviewed the (somewhat vague and open-ended) guidelines
- Need to follow up on grant approved last year (2017-18) from education and see if we have a report from thempdate from HLC Assessment Conference (Yu)
- Update from HLC Assessment Conference
- review of what HLC wants from all academic programs
- ongoing discussion of assessment data to improve student learning
- evidence of this, including meeting agendas and minutes
- Feedback through review of assessment
- Differentiation of learning goals, SLOs for programs
- isibility and consistency of SLOs
- SLOs on syllabi (Yu)
- HLC doesn’t explicitly say this is required
- But, looked like it was assumed at HLC conference presentations
- Senate Curriculum committee is now requiring this for new courses (as is CLAS; it’s a feature of the Carmin system form)
- We discussed the feasibility of this, given variation across disciplines, issues about faculty autonomy w.r.t. courses, questions about reviewing and monitoring
- Also discussed ways of encouraging faculty + departments
- Discussed having a survey to departments about who’s putting SLO’s on syllabi and how, ideally coming from UCET
- Lisa mentioned Betsy Lucal’s group on making a student-ready college – teaching transparency – might be good to reach out to them
- Fall assessment activities (Yu)
- We discussed having regular assessment coordinator meetings with lunch provided, presentations by either coordinators or enthusiastic faculty (like Lisa or Kathy?), gen ed coordinators, tips, success stories
- would help make assessment faculty-owned
- 2nd Fridays at 12:00 – Sept 13, Oct 11, (Nov 8?)
- SLO Food as the title?
- Committee membership for Susan Haithcox (Yu)
- we agreed to invite her to participate as a non-voting member
- need to remind Raman to get someone from the library, since Linda Fisher retired
- Assessment Annual Report Form (Yu)
- we discussed the two questions on the form, given that most re-use answers from previous years and just update the dates
- talked about and agreed it would be good to add a third question asking for more detailed ongoing discussion about assessment:
- Please provide evidence of ongoing discussion of assessment to improve [ensure? enhance? not undermine?] student learning [success?].
- This would be followed by instructions that gave suggested specifics.
- Assessment Annual Report 2018-2019 (Yu)
- will be on next meeting agenda (or next online meeting.)
- Next year’s committee
- Since all are returning, we decided to vote on a chair; Matt will chair again (though he welcomes late challengers who want to contest the election)