The Minutes Were Approved by Consensus

Learning Outcomes Dialog
Subcommittee
MINUTES
November 11, 2009
3:00 p.m.
President’s Conference Room

Gary welcomed Brad Brazil, Ray Mapeso, Kathy McLain and Lisa Marchand to the meeting.

Gary shared that he had sent emails to the 11 department chairs of the 17 departments that had not submitted any forms from the fall convocation dialogues. He has received 5 responses so far and has received 4 new forms.

January Convocation Dialogs – Gary reviewed some of the key interests that had been expressed at the previous meeting with respect to the upcoming dialogues. He also mentioned that the PD committee has modified the convocation day schedule and that presently the dialogues are scheduled to follow the area meetings at the end of the day. He asked folks what they thought about having the meetings in the same room. Lisa said that the logistics of this for her division would be difficult and mentioned that they like to use technology during the meeting, which wouldn’t work if all departments were meeting in the same location. This means that we will be scheduling the dialogues in rooms close to the area lunch locations. The need to send information to help people prepare for the upcoming dialogues prior to the end of the semester was reiterated.

Spring 2010 Flex
Assessment Facilitator Training – it was decided that we should have Assessment Dialog Discussion Leader training available sometime toward the end of the semester and during FLEX. There is also a need to develop more expertise at the college with regard to assessment. The idea of having a web page to support the identification of assessment tools and strategies was raised as an option. There was consensus about the need to develop assessment experts who are available to support their areas – but the specifics of this (how, who, what, when) were not discussed.
Stipend – Lisa suggested not having stipends and raised the possibility of having tiaras instead.
Drop in’s? Workshops? Other? – these options were not discussed

Draft Spring Planning Form Review – the Spring Planning forms was discussed. It was recommended that question #3 should be replaced with some variation of Determine which courses or activities would be appropriate for the assessment project. In addition, more space on the form needs to be provided to record comments. Finally, it was recommended that we add a question #5 to identify and discuss various logistical issues related to the implementation of the assessment project. For example, if a tool needs to be developed, who and how will this be developed. In addition, who is going to be responsible for collating and summarizing the results.

Draft Spring Reporting Form Review – The Spring Reporting form was also discussed. The only comments and suggestions were with regard to the layout (font, amount of space, etc.)

Draft Facilitator Document – The committee reviewed the Draft Dialogue Leader Guide documents. Slight modifications were suggested for the reporting guide. More significant modifications were suggested for the planning guide. In general, the attendees agreed that the guides were helpful and moving us in the right direction.

Draft Spring Convocation Announcement for Faculty – as mentioned above, it was agreed that we begin sending information to faculty earlier rather than later.