SACS Working Group Meeting
Agenda
8/30/2012
Location: EpiCenter - 1-324
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Invited: Alisha Vitale, Anne Cooper, Ashley Caron, Beth Goodbread, Carol Weideman, Cathy
Ladewig, Cynthia Grey, Cynthia Jolliff-Johnson, Daniel Gardner, Darlene Westberg, Diane
Reese, Djuan Fox, Doug Duncan, Eric Tucker, Gail Lancaster, George Greenlee, Jamelle
Conner, James Olliver, Janice Thiel, Jesse Coraggio, Jim Waechter, Jim Wallis, John Hesting,
Joseph Leopold, Kim Molinaro, Kim Wolff, Laurie King, Leigh Hopf, Margaret Bowman,
Michael Bennett, Michael Hughes, Patrick Rinard, Patty Jones, Richard Flora, Sharon Griggs,
Shirley Johnson, Stan Vittetoe, Susan Fell, Suzanne Gardner, Suzanne Preston, Tom Furlong,
Tom Philippe, Tonjua Williams, Vicki Westergard, Wendy Rib
Topics:
I)
Report from attendees of SACS Summer Institute
Suzanne Preston; Cynthia Jolliff-Johnson; Vicki Westergard
These were the areas we discussed at the pre-conference meeting for the attendees to
obtain information on:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
F)
G)
H)
I)
Qualified Administrative/Academic Officers (3.2.8) – How far down the org chart to
include? (Cynthia)
Substantive Change – Is a program going totally online considered a substantive
change? (Suzanne)
Policy Compliance (3.13) – Find out everything you can, confirm which addressed
for Fifth-Year: 3.13.1, 3.13.3, and 3.13.4 (Vicki)
What about institutional changes close to the report? (Suzanne)
Non-credit – Need accreditor’s approval for financial aid. How do we get document
SACSCOC approval for non-credit? What would SACS require? (Cynthia)
I just met with Tonjua Williams who’s working on Student Complaints (4.5), and she
relayed her request that you listen in for details about this standard. Particularly, how
to best distinguish between student complaints and grievances. And, what are
recommendations for the type and level of documentation we’d need to be able to
provide that shows we have a complaint policy and that the policy is wellcommunicated and followed. (Vicki)
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. (Suzanne)
Is our current solution addressing the issue of non-program specific general
education courses going to be acceptable to meet SACSCOC requirements? (Vicki)
Regarding the QEP Impact Report - If within the narrative, a link to a Website or
other Web document is provided, does the number of pages of that Website or
document count towards the 10 pages? I don’t think so, but please see if you can get
this clarified. My thinking is that the QEP Impact Report’s 10 pages need to stand on
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SACS Working Group Meeting
Agenda
8/30/2012
its own, but we could provide links to additional information, if the reviewer would
like further details. For example, within ours we’re going to talk about the
Instructional Portfolios that the Faculty Champions created. I plan to provide a link
to those portfolios which have many many “pages” within ANGEL. I will describe
the portfolios in the narrative, perhaps describing a couple in detail, but provide the
link in case the reader wants to check them out first hand. Will this be OK? (Cynthia)
II)
2012 SACSCOC Annual Meeting
Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX
December 8-11, 2012
Who’s going?
III)
Timeline
IV)
V)
A)
August – Feedback from internal review team
B)
September – Revisions complete, editing “one voice”
C)
October – Editing complete, outside consultant review – SECOND DRAFT
D)
November, December – outside consultant review
E)
January – Feedback from outside consultant
F)
February – Revisions complete, final editing and compiling for submission
G)
March – THIRD AND FINAL DRAFT
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
Next Meetings, EpiCenter - 1-324:
A)
Wednesday, September 26, 3:30-4:30 (Yom Kippur)
B)
October, November, December?
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Standard
Administrative Members
Faculty Members
Faculty (2.8)
Anne Cooper, Sharon Griggs, Djuan Fox
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, Cathy Ladewig
Cynthia Grey
Institutional Effectiveness (3.3.1)
Jesse Coraggio, Leigh Hopf
Wendy Rib, Carol Weideman
Admissions Policies (3.4.3)
Anne Cooper, Pat Rinard, Susan Fell,
Djuan Fox
Suzanne Preston
Academic Program Coordination (3.4.11)
Anne Cooper, Beth Goodbread
Kim Molinaro, Laurie King
Physical Facilities (3.11.3)
Doug Duncan, Jim Waechter
Jim Wallis
Policy Compliance (3.13)
Suzanne Gardner, Ashley Caron
Student Achievement (4.1)
Jesse Coraggio, Leigh Hopf
Gail Lancaster, Carol Weideman
Program Curriculum (4.2)
Stan Vittetoe, Anne Cooper, Jim Olliver
Darlene Westberg, John Hesting
Publication of Policies (4.3)
Tonjua Williams, Richard Flora
Cynthia Grey
Program Length (4.4)
Anne Cooper, Margaret Bowman, Djuan
Fox
Wendy Rib
Student Complaints (4.5)
Tonjua Williams
George Greenlee, Michael Hughes
Recruitment Materials (4.6)
Patty Jones, Alisha Vitale
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
Updated: 8/28/2012
Janice Thiel, Ashley Caron
Gail Lancaster
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