Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, December 12, 2013
3-4:30 PM
PV CC503
Minutes
Attendees: Kristy Bishop, Cynthia Sexton Proctor, Melissa Giese, Mindy McCallum, Tammie May, Mike
Headley, Jim Mcgraw, Paul Long, Terry Davin, Casey Reid, Mary Ann Blitt, Cheryl Carpenter-Davis
Approval of Minutes
The minutes were approved.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Technology Report
• Paul discussed the positive letter we received from Sylvia Manning on the work that has been done
at MCC with the HLC-Pathways project. He mentioned that we had gone far and above to make a
quality initiative and to have developed a sustainable model. He is presenting the letter to the
board tonight. He wanted to express thanks to all of the faculty for their work on this project.
• Paul gave an update on the changes within the state that are affecting the AAT for both students
and MCC with assessment standards. Students are being required to take the MOGEA instead of
the CBASE test. However, there hasn’t been adequate data from MOGEA to determine a threshold
for success yet. We are unable to tell students what level they need to achieve. There is no
standard state set scores currently. Both 2-year and 4-year institutions are being asked to set their
own scores. The MOGEA scores start date has been pushed back to 2015 while more data is
collected. Additionally, faculty have not been able to view the new MOGEA assessment to make
curricular updates if necessary.
• Paul provided an update on the Title III grant. Interviewing for the new 5 year grant positions starts
tomorrow and concludes next week. Hiring recommendations will be taken to Dr. Seabrooks, Dr.
Banks, and Paul for consideration Thursday. Offers will go out by the end of next week.
IRB Report
No report
HLC Committee Report
• Next monthly meeting is on 12/19/13.
Survey Reports
• The Applicant Survey (formerly known as the Prospect Survey) is complete. Melissa Giese is
beginning the data analysis and will share with DACC when finalized.
• Noel-Levitz will be done online this spring for students, staff and faculty.
o All students will be sent an online invitation to the Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) in
March and will be open through April. Methodology was reviewed. There will be a focus to
get a greater number of traditional aged male participants.
o The Institutional Priorities (IPS) survey will include a random sample of 500 faculty and 500
staff and administrators this spring in mid-February.
o The AC and IWI will be excluded as we are trying to focus on areas with the highest student
contact.
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We are adding questions to both the SSI and the IPS surveys. We didn’t add additional
questions during the last administration. The following topics were discussed for inclusion:
student preparedness, helping students chose major and/or plan, new student enrollment
group, developmental questions, placement, title III, COLL 100, and time to completion.
Noel Levitz has very specific question formatting that must be followed. Copies of the
survey were handed out for review of the necessary formatting. Not all questions lend
themselves to that type of format. Cheryl Carpenter-Davis will work with Melissa Giese on
adding some questions specifically related to Title III.
Additional topics/questions will be collected through January 17th for review and feasibility
for inclusion. Please submit your suggestions to Melissa Giese and/or Kristy Bishop.
MCC Open Pathway Improvement Project Report
• Rosters to collect assessment results have been sent out – Due to Kristy by January 31st, 2014.
• All discipline assessment meetings have concluded for the semester. Cynthia and Kristy met with
16 discipline faculty to go over results. They will meet with 19 discipline faculty to go over results,
next semester.
• Discipline Review - Biology, Foreign Languages, Physics, and Engineering have started working on
their information to present to the Officers and Deans on April 29, 2014.
• Faculty training on rubrics will be developed as an online class through blackboard.
Higher Learning Commission Update
• The Annual Conference is in Chicago, IL, April 10-13, 2014. Kristy Bishop and Cynthia Sexton
Proctor’s proposal for presentation, “Changing to an Inclusive, Systematic, and Sustainable Culture
of Assessment” was accepted.
Assessment Reports
• Paul discussed the changes to the Education program in his report (see VC Report above).
Proposals for new assessment or survey requests
• Jim McGraw and Tammie May presented information on the HOPE project beginning this spring
with Connie Flick-Hruska. Faculty volunteers will be administering the HOPE scale as a pre and post
assessment in class this spring. Student will be taught about HOPE through in class interventions
that have been developed. These will occur throughout specific timeframes of the semester.
Training will be held at LV for faculty volunteers. There are 13 faculty volunteers currently and they
would like to include others if interested. Please contact them directly if you would like to
participate. Funds were requested from the Office of Research & Assessment to cover the cost of
NCR forms used for the students. It was expected to cost about $20. A vote will be sent out by
email as there wasn’t a quorum.
• Casey Reid and Cynthia Sexton Proctor are co-chairs for HLC criterion 4. There is a lack of district
wide assessment currently for co-curricular activities at MCC. There are many activities being done
across the district, however not all are tied together and assessed. They would like to develop
learning objectives and will begin looking at the learning outcomes in the classes the co-curricular
activities are tied to.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
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3-4:30 PM
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Title III update was given by Paul in his report.
Campus Reports
• BR – No report
• BT – No report
• LV –Tammie May is collecting class based assessment project information for HLC evidence. They
have decided not to merge completely the curriculum and assessment committees. They will meet
jointly a couple times a year.
• MW – They met but no new assessment reported.
• PV –No new assessment reported.
• MO Health Wins –The grant office audited files and we were dinged for insufficient case notes.
They are wanting to see a student narrative written with points of contact from everyone noted. In
classes that are 16 weeks in length they would like faculty to make notes at least monthly. For
shorter courses, weekly notes from faculty may be necessary.
Old Business
• The 4th Annual Regional Assessment Conference for Community Colleges is March 28, 2014 in PV
019. A call for proposals has gone out externally and to MCC. Please consider presenting or
facilitating a world café table. Contact Melissa Giese if you wish to attend.
• We hope to have enough sessions for 4 tracks this year; developmental education, student services,
general education, and career & technical. The keynote speaker is Clifford Adelman.
• Two vendors have already been secured, ETS and McGraw Hill.
New Business
• Next meeting: 3 PM on February 13, 2014 in AC Boardroom.
The meeting was adjourned.
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