Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, November 14, 2013
3-4:30 PM
PV CC503
Minutes
Attendees: Kristy Bishop, Karen Moore, Melissa Giese, Dachia Scroggins, Kim Glackin, Mindy McCallum,
Sybil Chandler, Melissa Eaton, Tammie May, Lisa Spaulding, Tom Wheeler, Eric Sullivan, Mike Headley, Jim
Mcgraw, Tristan Londre
Approval of Minutes
The minutes were approved.
Vice Chancellor for Educational Services & Technology Report
No report
IRB Report
An IRB was approved for a student of Melissa Eaton’s researching autism.
HLC Committee Report
• Campus Liaison Training – 11/12/13
• Next monthly meeting is on 11/19/13.
Survey Reports
• Tammie May and Melissa Giese closed a survey that went out to a random sample of 6000 Cass
County residents. The purpose is to assess their interest in higher education and having an MCC
presence in Cass County. Analysis has begun and found the population has a high percentage of
older respondents that have no dependents at home. There was a lot of interest in continuing
education. More analysis continues. The response rate was lower than hoped.
• The Applicant Survey (formerly known as the Prospect Survey) is being done again this fall. Melissa
Giese hired student workers to make phone calls to people who applied to MCC but did not enroll
or attend. Surveying is currently underway.
• The Teacher Education Survey in conjunction with Missouri Western State University has closed and
results will be analyzed once all classes have been returned to IR.
• 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. Advertising and incentives (food) were discussed to
increase response rates. It was suggested that kiosks in the enrollment center were to be
utilized as well as working with student groups, Student Governments, and Campus Life
and Leadership.
o We discussed opening up the Institutional Priorities (IPS) survey for faculty to include staff
and administrators this year. Last year only faculty were included because we were
comparing data to CCSSE which only surveys faculty. A random sample of 500 faculty and
500 staff and administrators will be surveyed this spring in February. The AC and IWI will be
excluded.
o We talked about adding questions to the survey this time. We didn’t add additional
questions during the last administration. We can’t change the faculty rank question. The
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Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, November 14, 2013
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following topics were mentioned 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. Not all questions lend themselves to that type of format.
Additional topics/questions will be collected this month for review and feasibility for
inclusion.
o Noel-Levitz questions are linked to HLC criteria for easier reporting.
o This year we will have comparison data from the last administration to look for
improvement. Kristy Bishop and Melissa Giese gave 23 result presentations last time. They
would like to get to the board and to student groups this administration.
SENSE will be administered in fall 2014 through the Title III grant and CCSSE will be administered in
spring 2015.
Melissa Eaton took the faculty evaluation process to the academic affairs and it is now in
committee. Consideration is being given to administering course evaluations online. Todd Martin is
developing a pilot. Melissa Giese is processing completed paper student course evaluations and
sending reports back to the division chairs.
MCC Open Pathway Improvement Project Report
• Rosters to collect assessment results are being 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.
• 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.
• Academy results will be June 25th-27th in St. Charles, IL.
Higher Learning Commission Update
• The Annual Conference is in Chicago, IL, April 10-13, 2014.
Assessment Reports
• Tristan Londre discussed the Career Program Outcome Assessment Report. It can be found on the
Assessment website.
Proposals for new assessment or survey requests
• The Title III job descriptions have been posted.
Campus Reports
• BR – No report
• BT – They have had 2 work sessions.
• LV – Met in October. They are working on merging the assessment and curriculum committees.
Tammie May is collecting class based assessment project information for HLC evidence.
• MW – No report
• PV – No report
• MO Health Wins –The grant office is currently auditing files.
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Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, November 14, 2013
3-4:30 PM
PV CC503
Old Business
• The 4th Annual Regional Assessment Conference for Community Colleges is March 28, 2014 in PV
019. We will be putting out a Call for proposals shortly. 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.
New Business
• Next meeting: 3 PM on December 12, 2013 in PVCC 503.
The meeting was adjourned.
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