SACS Working Group Meeting
Minutes
6/27/2012
Location: EpiCenter - 1-324
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Attended: Alisha Vitale, Ashley Caron, Cathy Ladewig, Cynthia Grey, Darlene Westberg, Diane Reese, George Greenlee, Janice Thiel, James Olliver, Jesse Coraggio, Jim Waechter, Kim Molinaro, Michael Bennett, Michael Hughes, Richard Flora, Shirley Johnson, Stan Vittetoe, Suzanne Preston, Tom Furlong, Vicki Westergard
Topics:
I) Faculty Competence 3.7.1
A) Recommendation to review credentialing process was brought to the Strategic Issues Council.
B) A faculty credentialing committee was formed and then met on 6/19/12: Jonathan Steele, Greg Nenstiel, Kay Burniston, Jesse Coraggio, Cathy Ladewig, Jennifer Ferrazano, Doug Duncan, Davanh Sengphrachanh, Anja Norman, Wendy Rib, Rebecca Kramer, Margaret Bowman
C) Beth Goodbread is helping spearhead the committee.
II) New Standard – 3.13 – Policy Compliance
A) 3.13.1 – Accrediting Decisions of Other Agencies
B) 3.13.3 – Complaint Procedures against the Commission or Its Accredited Institutions
C) 3.13.4 – Reaffirmation of Accreditation and Subsequent Reports
Janice discussed the new standards and requested volunteers to work on these. Please email Janice if you can add any of these to your agenda. Those attending the SACSCOC Summer Institute should focus on sessions that cover this new standard.
III) Debrief from State Assessment Meeting at Valencia
Cynthia discussed the sessions she attended. A comprehensive summary of her sessions is included on the website with these minutes. In addressing Steve Sheeley’s presentation of being sure to include faculty’s professional judgment in the assessment of the teaching/learning process, Ashley Caron shared that this was already part of our assessment process. Jesse Coraggio shared that changes have been made to those elective courses that were program specific.
During the discussion of the content from the State Assessment meeting, the group identified several areas that we would like further clarification from SACSCOC. It was decided that we would ask those attending the Summer SACSCOC institute to try to address these concerns with SACSCOC at that time. Some of the questions identified during the meeting were:
1. How does SACSCOC define ‘skills based.’ When SACCOC reviews these General Education requirements, will they review the course content. This question rose from the discussion of SACS ruling that general education courses cannot be completely skills based. The example that was given at the meeting was if the institution requires 6 hours of English electives, they cannot be comprised of Comp I and Comp II, but say Comp I and a Literature course.
2. Is our current solution addressing the issue of non-program specific general education courses going to be acceptable to meet SACSCOC requirements.
3. How far should those working on Standard 3.2.8, qualified Administrators/Academic Offers ‘drill down’ in presenting the supporting documentation?
IV) Timeline
Janice reviewed the timeline and shared with the group that two internal reviews have been selected and they will begin the process of reviewing standards by July 21. Therefore, all drafts need to be complete by that time.
A) July – Revisions complete, internal review team – FIRST DRAFT
B) August – Feedback from internal review team
C) September – Revisions complete, editing “one voice”
D) October – Editing complete, outside consultant review – SECOND DRAFT
E) November, December – outside consultant review
F) January – Feedback from outside consultant
G) February – Revisions complete, final editing and compiling for submission
H) March – THIRD AND FINAL DRAFT
V) Upcoming Events
A) SACSCOC 2012 Institute on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation
Omni CNN, Atlanta, Georgia
July 29 - August 1, 2012
Who’s going: Cynthia Jolliff-Johnson, Vicki Westergard, Suzanne Preston.
Questions for team? Please see comments under III – Debriefing from the State Assessment Meeting
B) 2012 SACSCOC Annual Meeting
Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX
December 8-11, 2012
Who’s going: Janice Thiel, Cynthia Grey, others?
Please let us know you are interested in attending the SACSCOC annual conference. We know it is early, but making hotel reservations at the conference site might be problem closer to the conference dates.
VI) Recommendations
A) Establish methods for maintaining lists of those assigned primary responsibilities (e.g., curriculum developers)
B) Revisit college goals (consider workforce)
C) Improve efficiencies of maintaining faculty lists and documenting qualifications/credentials
D) Review non-academic areas of the college (facilities, etc.) for how the achievement of goals is monitored.
E) Review of currently credentialing process per recommendation
VII) Next Meetings, EpiCenter - 1-324:
A) Wednesday, July 11, 3:30-4:30
B) Thursday, August 30, 2:00-3:00
C) Wednesday, September 26, 3:30-4:30
VIII) Feedback from Partners and working in individual groups
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Standard / Administrative Members / Faculty MembersFaculty (2.8) / Anne Cooper, Kay Burniston / Frank Appunn, Shirley Johnson, Cynthia Grey, Tom Philippe
Student Support Services (2.10) / Tonjua Williams, Cynthia Jolliff-Johnson / Diane Reese
Qualified Administrative/Academic Officers (3.2.8) / Patty Jones / Cynthia Grey
Institutional Effectiveness (3.3.1) / Jesse Coraggio, Leigh Hopf / Wendy Rib, Carol Weideman
Admissions Policies (3.4.3) / Anne Cooper, Kay Burniston / Suzanne Preston
Academic Program Coordination (3.4.11) / Anne Cooper / Beth Goodbread, Kim Molinaro, Laurie King
Physical Facilities (3.11.3) / Doug Duncan / Jim Wallis
Student Achievement (4.1) / Jesse Coraggio, Leigh Hopf / Gail Lancaster, Carol Weideman
Program Curriculum (4.2) / Stan Vittetoe, Anne Cooper, Kay Burniston, Jim Olliver / Darlene Westberg, John Hesting
Publication of Policies (4.3) / Tonjua Williams, Richard Flora / Cynthia Grey
Program Length (4.4) / Anne Cooper, Kay Burniston / Wendy Rib
Student Complaints (4.5) / Tonjua Williams / George Greenlee, Michael Hughes
Recruitment Materials (4.6) / Patty Jones / Cynthia Grey
Title IV Program Responsibilities (4.7) and Financial Aid Audits (3.10.3) / Michael Bennett, Tonjua Williams / Eric Tucker
Distance and Correspondence Education (4.8) / Jim Olliver, Stan Vittetoe, Vicki Westergard / Laurie King
Definition of Credit Hours (4.9) / Susan Fell
QEP Impact Report / Janice Thiel, Ashley Hendrickson / Gail Lancaster
Updated: 4/17/2012
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