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NEASC Steering Committee Meeting
November 13, 2007
MEETING MINUTES
Present:
C. Lovitt, P. Lemma, A. Alling, R. Cernock, R. Bachoo, M.
Toston, C. Magnan,
L. Wilder, T. Craine, K. Kollar
Committee Member Updates:
T. Craine (Standard 1):
Standard 1 is having trouble answering the substandard entitled
Institutional Effectiveness, and T. Craine asked P. Lemma
for some suggestions. T. Craine reported that his committee
will be meeting again this month to discuss the appraisal
section.
P. Lemma
(Standard 2):
P. Lemma reported that she is in the process of collecting
pieces of the description section from individual group
members. P. Lemma will be organizing them into one coherent
description draft. Standard 2 will be conducting private
interviews with various Steering committee members for the
appraisal section. The interviews will be conducted primarily
to get feedback regarding the Institutional Effectiveness
sections of each standard for the Standard 2 report. Standard 2
has already conducted an interview with T. Craine concerning the
appraisal section.
Further
discussion occurred regarding the Institutional Effectiveness
piece of the self-study. Committee members agreed that it was
difficult to form a response to this section. P. Lemma noted
that Standard 2 will be primarily responsible for answering the
Institutional Effectiveness question as a whole, but that each
standard will have to answer this question on their own as it
specifically relates to their section of the self-study. P.
Lemma added that if all groups waited to answer this question
until they were finished with all three sections of the report
then they would be able to form a more cohesive response to the
question.
A. Alling (Standard 3):
A. Alling reported that the Standard 3 description has been
rewritten in a line-by-line format, and that she will be sending
the rewritten draft to K. Kollar. A. Alling noted that she met
with K. Kollar previous to this meeting to discuss the links for
the description section.
C. Lovitt (Standards 4 & 5):
C. Lovitt notified the committee that he will meet with each of
his standards’ chairs on a one-on-one basis to discuss committee
progress. C. Lovitt reported that some of his committees were
working on their projections as well as their appraisal
sections.
M. Toston (Standard 6):
M. Toston asked K. Kollar for confirmation that her committee’s
links are in good shape for the Standard 6 description section.
K. Kollar responded that the links are in good shape and have
been added to the electronic table of contents.
R. Cernock (Standard 7):
R. Cernock reported that he has worked on C. Lovitt’s comments
for the Standard 7 description. Standard 7 is also looking for
a time when the committee can meet on a weekly basis.
R. Bachoo (Standard 8):
R. Bachoo reported that he will be doing the final read of the
changes made to the Standard 8 description section on Thursday.
L. Wilder (Standard 9):
L. Wilder reported that his committee is still waiting for some
of the financial information to be completed before Standard 9
can complete their description section. L. Wilder will be
writing the description section and submitting it as soon as the
financial reports are in.
C. Magnan (Standard 11):
C. Magnan reported that the Standard 11 survey results for their
appraisal section will be reviewed on Thursday. C. Magnan added
that the description section is almost completely revised and
the appraisal draft should be completed by mid-December.
C. Lovitt
asked the group if it was possible to have all description
sections completed and turned in by the end of November. All
members agreed that this was a reasonable request.
Update on Noel Levitz—A. Alling:
Results for
the Noel Levitz survey should be in by next week. A. Alling
reported that the results will first go to the President and the
Executive Committee for review and then proceed to other
invested parties. P. Lemma asked A. Alling to key the questions
from the survey, indicating which questions pertain to each of
the NEASC standards.
Update on
Supporting Link Documents—P. Lemma:
P. Lemma
met with R. Cernock and K. Kollar to discuss alternate ways of
linking documents for their self-study, per R. Cernock’s
suggestion at the previous Steering Committee meeting. The
decision was made to have all supporting electronic documents
placed into a secure folder in order to avoid linking items to
the CCSU website or to any other unreliable site. K. Kollar
will save all files to a secure folder that will then be placed
on Vista and on a separate disk for the visiting team to access.
P. Lemma
handed out a copy of the table of contents for the electronic
documents and asked the committee to review it and let K. Kollar
know what reference materials will be utilized for their
particular standards. P. Lemma added that committees should
notify K. Kollar of any links being used by their standard that
do not appear on the electronic table of contents.
Update on Document Room—P. Lemma:
P. Lemma
informed the committee that K. Kollar will be collecting
documents for the Document room in the library, and committee
members should contact K. Kollar if they have any hard copies
they would like to place there. P. Lemma and K. Kollar are in
the process of organizing the room for the NEASC team visit. P.
Lemma reminded the committee that they should only use hard
documents if they are unable to provide a link for that
particular reference item.
NEASC Site Team Chair’s Spring Visit—P. Lemma:
P. Lemma
informed the committee that there will be a visit from the
appointed team chair,
Dr. Patricia Meservey, about three to six months before the
NEASC team visit. P. Lemma explained that the purpose of Dr.
Meservey’s visit was to talk to the Steering Committee about
what she will be doing during the site visit in October. Dr.
Meservey will be meeting with a number of people, in addition to
the Steering Committee, possibly including the Chancellor, and
the President. Dr. Meservey will also be working with a contact
person (possibly P. Lemma) about the NEASC team’s needs while
they are visiting in the fall. P. Lemma added that before Dr.
Meservey’s visit the commission will send her any documents
relating to CCSU’s accreditation.
P. Lemma notified the committee that the other NEASC Team
visiting members will be identified in the spring.
Town Meeting:
P. Lemma informed the group that there was supposed to be a town
meeting held in the month of November. After some discussion C.
Lovitt agreed it would be better to postpone the meeting until
the week of December 10th. C. Lovitt noted that the committee
would need to publicize the description sections prior to this
meeting so that they can be discussed.
Action Items:
·
Committees will submit final description drafts to C. Lovitt by
November 30th.
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A Town Meeting will be scheduled for the week of December 10th.
·
Committee members review the electronic document table of
contents, make appropriate indications, and return to K. Kollar.
·
Committees send revised description drafts to P. Lemma and K.
Kollar to be posted to Vista.
The next Steering Committee Meeting will be held on
Tuesday,
December 11th, at
11:00 a.m. in the
President’s Conference Room.
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