Minutes of meeting 9/29/21

The Academic Senate Committee on Committee on Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness met on September 29, 2021 at 12:10PM via secure online meeting

Committee Members in Attendance:

Thomas Byrnes (Admissions, 2023), Urszula Golebiewska (Biology, 2024), Chukwudi Ikwueze (Social Sciences, 2022), Kevin Kolack (Chemistry, 2022, Secretary), Manuel Martinez (English, 2022), Renee Rhodd (Transfer Resources Center, 2024), Barbara Rome (Nursing, 2023), Mark Ulrich (Business, 2024), Biao Wang (Math, 2023)

Absent: TBA (student representatives)

Liaisons in Attendance:

Arthur Corradetti (Dean for Institutional Effectiveness, President's Liaison)

Absent: TBA (Steering Committee designee), TBA (Committee on Committees designee)

Business:

The meeting was called to order at 12:10 PM

1. Approval of agenda, Approved without objections.
2. Approval of minutes from May 12^th, 2021. Approved without objections.
3. Brief report on Dr. Ikwueze's presentation at the Academic Senate
   Dr. Golebiewska also attended
   This Committee will coordinate with Chairs and departmental assessment committees, and liaise with the Provost.
4. Update on Committee Guide Addendum
   Dr. Kolack will post the existing guide as a Google Doc for the Committee to edit to be approved at the next meeting.
5. Dean Corradetti's Comments on program review and year-end reporting
   Would be helpful if the Committee checked to see if the program review schedule is being followed.
   Year-end report (August) and assessment report (October; to allow departments to discuss the prior year’s assessment efforts and include minutes of the discussion) successfully split into 2 templates.
   Based on assessment reports submitted thus far, departments who have traditionally submitted good reports continue to do so, and those who submit poor reports also continue to do so. Feedback from the Committee on this to the Provost will hopefully help.
   It was clarified that the assessment reports to be submitted are summaries of findings of various levels of assessment.
6. Discuss scheduling and procedure for review of teaching department, non-teaching department, and program assessment reports. (templates/rubrics on Committee web site)
   Teaching depts will be assigned shortly (1-2 per Committee member); rubric needs to be updated to reflect the new template
   Some non-teaching departments, of which there are nearly 80, will be combined for assessment reports. Dean Corradetti is meeting with division leaders to determine who reports should be expected from. That list will be shared with the Committee. Those currently submitting reports are on the assessment website.
7. Coordination with departmental assessment committees
   Dean Corradetti suggests we have a very clear agenda when meeting with them. Perhaps the goal is to discuss their assessment reports, or to encourage depts. without assessment committees to form one.
8. Notification of meetings of Chairs and Secretary with the Steering Committee (October 6, 2021) and Provost (pending).

Next meeting October 13^th, 12:10PM
Meeting adjourned 1:00pm

Respectfully submitted,

Kevin Kolack, Ph.D.
Committee on Committee on Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness, Secretary

Minutes typed on 09/29/21

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