Minutes of meeting 3/10/21
Minutes
The Academic Senate Committee on Committee on Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness met on March 10, 2021 at 12:10PM via secure online meeting
Committee Members in Attendance:
Thomas Byrnes (Admissions, 2023), Chukwudi Ikwueze (Social Sciences, 2022), Christine (Mi-Seon) Kim (Library, 2021, co-Chair), Kevin Kolack (Chemistry, 2022, Secretary), Amos Orlofsky (Biological Sciences and Geology, 2021, co-Chair), Barbara Rome (Nursing, 2023), Biao Wang (Math, 2023)
Absent: Raul Armendariz (Physics, 2021), Manuel Martinez (English, 2022), TBA (student representatives)
Liaisons in Attendance:
Arthur Corradetti (Dean for Institutional Effectiveness, President's Liaison), Ian Beckford (Director of Policy Analysis for General Education, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning)
Absent: Stephen Hammel (Committee on Committees designee), TBA (Steering Committee designee)
Business:
The meeting was called to order at 12:10 PM
- Approval of agenda, Approved without objections.
- Approval of minutes from February 17th, 2021. Approved without objections.
- What we want to do as a Committee.
- What have we done: Need to update rubric based on new template.
- What we want to achieve: Establish a cycle of teaching, non-teaching reports, and program reviews.
- Where we will focus our efforts: Looking at the academic program review schedule, the Committee can look at the status of the reviews as well as the comprehensiveness of each review.
- Amos presented a pdf he prepared.
- We will also discuss our upcoming Middle States self-study (which will undoubtedly pay more attention to our operationalizing assessment) with the Steering Committee. Does the Senate need to spark more interest in assessment as a whole, or is that the job of the committee?
- Old business
- Inviting faculty from each department to the next meeting (April 14th). Departments that responded: Business, Biology, ET, English, Foreign Language, HPED, Math, and Social Sciences
- New business
- 3 members' terms end in May 2021 (Prof Armendariz, Prof Orlofsky, and Prof Kim)
- Will elect a new chair on May 12, 2021
- Next meeting April 14th
- Meeting adjourned 1:50PM
Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Kolack, Ph.D.
Committee on Committee on Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness, Secretary
Minutes typed on 3/10/21