MEMBERS PRESENT:

Nedra Lowe, Jenka Lockwood, Sherry Vaseashta, Dave Gesner, Marjorie Keatley

MEMBERS ABSENT:

None

EX-OFFICIO, NON-VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT:

Dana Robertson, Judy Scherer

EX-OFFICIO, NON-VOTING MEMBERS ABSENT:

Lisa Penix

The meeting was convened at 10:00 a.m. in CA 113 by Nedra Lowe, Chair.

1.	APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

The minutes of the April 27, 2004 meeting were approved as read.

2.	OLD BUSINESS: None

3.	NEW BUSINESS:

A.

Members elected committee officers for the academic year. Committee Chair will be Nedra Lowe. Secretary will be Jenka Lockwood.

B.

Members voted in favor forwarding a recommendation to the Faculty Council that the Committee be allowed to have all members whose division/department is completing the Toolkit be voting members. Up until now, the members representing Continuing Education and the Advising Center have been ex-officio members. Other changes to the Committee will be:      *A replacement for Pattie Walker      *Representation from Classified Staff

C.     The role of the Committee for 2004 - 2005 will be:

to serve as peer reviewers to divisions/departments completing a toolkit. to serve as a connection between the divisions and the Committee. to become aware of various assessment activities, particularly program-specific assessment activities. to become familiar with the new Share Point computer program that will serve as an internal website where documents such as course outlines, curriculum tools, and course outlines may be shared among all CTC faculty and staff.

D.

Nedra reported that there has been a problem with the online version of the Graduating Student Survey. Students are either not completing it as planned, or the data from the surveys is not being collected in the program data base as planned. The problem is still being studied. Committee members suggested it may be beneficial to target one class to complete survey together in order to identify the problems.

E.

Our efforts to improve the administration and awareness of the Work Keys Tests are resulting in better data collection and improved overall operation of the testing of all students. However, we are still not analyzing the data as efficiently as we should be. Dr. Scherer recommends that the Work Keys Testing data and the Graduating Student Survey data be made available to faculty, but that we must first devise a way of presenting findings in a meaningful and understandable way.

F.

Programs up for review this academic year are:      *Interior Design      *General Studies      *Manufacturing / Engineering Tech (postponed because there is no lead        faculty in place at this time; specialized accreditation has already been        deferred.)

G.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 28, 2004

The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m.


Respectfully submitted:

   

Jenka L. Lockwood


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