Minutes for Digital Measures Steering Committee Meeting
Thursday, May 15, 2014 from 2:00 to 4:00, Zuhl Library Conference Room #225
Present
ACES – Steve Loring, Associate Director, Agricultural Experiment Station
Arts & Sciences – Ken Van Winkle, Associate Dean, Development
Business – Chris Erickson, Professor, Economics and International Business
Education – Alfred Valdez, Assistant Professor, Special Education and Communication Disorders
HSS – Donna Wagner, Associate Dean
Library – Larry Creider, Department Head
OAP – Natalie Kellner, Director, Academic Planning
OAP – Moana Jarvis, System Administrator
International & Border Programs - Cornell Menking, Associate Provost
Research - Sudha Murthy, Director, Research Development & Strategic Initiatives
Research - Bill Harty, Director, Research Administrative Systems
Announcements
· Executive Vice President and Provost Dan Howard will likely attend our next meeting.
· Presentations screen enhancements completed.
· Moana will be working with a team from the Library to complete the merge of the Library Instrument with the University Instrument by the end of the summer.
· Moana has been working with A & S to complete changes on the Workload Information screen needed because of the College’s move to an academic year evaluation period.
Discussions
· Members discussed Faculty Specialty keywords at great length. Concluded a controlled list at the same granularity is valuable at this time. Group seeks Provost feedback.
· Members favor a comprehensive list of Countries for a drop-down list selection with the name only.
· Number of Participants discussed as addition for some faculty work. Existing example in DM was provided in handouts.
· Members discussed potential for faculty to extract Number of Citations from Google Scholar and add to DM to support Vision 2020 KPIs.
To Do’s
· Natalie to update Faculty Specialty keywords and forward to steering committee for additional suggestions.
· Natalie to solicit Provost feedback.
· Natalie to determine available dates for Provost for next meeting.
Next Meeting – TBD, likely in July