Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, September 13, 2012
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Boardroom
Minutes
Attendees: Melissa Giese, Cynthia Sexton Proctor, Kristy Bishop, Tristan Londre, Dachia Scroggins, Karen
Moore, George Green, Rich Higgason, Nancy Russell, Al Dimmitt, Mindy McCallum, Jerome Williams,
Tammie May, and Fran Padow, Mary Ann Blitt, Jim McGraw, Eric Sullivan, and Jill Kingsbury
Approval of Minutes
The minutes were reviewed and approved.
Vice Chancellor for Educational Services & Technology Report
The AA review will start after ZBB and SEM conclude in October. A literature review is being done to look
at best practices.
IRB Report
There have been 5 requests this month. One has been approved; a police officer from MW conducting a
survey on conflict resolution. The survey is being emailed to all MCC employees and some students. IR will
get the results.
There is a definite need for an IRB committee to review these requests make related decisions.
HLC Committee Report
 The results of the Summer Symposium: Countdown to Reaccreditation evaluation was reviewed.
There was a lot of positive feedback from the evaluation. Keynote-Bob Mundhenk commented that
he was impressed with where we are with the discipline outcomes and our progress being made in
the pathways project.
Survey Reports
CCSSE
 The executive committee met and recommends delaying the administration of CCSSE/CCFSSE until
spring 2015. The following reasons were stated:
o COLL 100 just started and we need time to see changes
o There have been no other major initiatives since we surveyed in spring 2009.
o Data from the spring 2012 Noel-Levitz survey is still being reviewed for institutional change
and will be re-administered in spring 2014.
o CCSSE benchmarks can be used for 5 years for reporting purposes. We are still within that
timeframe for reporting.
 Members were asked to vote to delay the administration. A motion was carried to move the
administration to spring 2015.
Noel Levitz Survey of Student Satisfaction
 Kristy and Melissa are going to different MCC groups to discuss the results. Feedback is being
gathered and will be brought to the officers and chancellor’s cabinet when Kristy presents the results
for them. Kristy would like to get to more faculty groups. She has currently only heard back from the
PV faculty. The goal is to use the data and make recommendations for institutional change.
 Additionally, Melissa will present the results at a breakout session during in-service.
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Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, September 13, 2012
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Boardroom
MCC Open Pathway Improvement Project Report
a. We recently submitted our bi-annual report on the progress of our project through the new
HLC portal. HLC is having portal issues with receiving reports.
b. Reminder: 2nd Cohort is administering assessments this semester
c. Reminder: 1st Cohort disciplines are meeting to discuss assessment results – Engineering
(9/13), Economics (9/18), Foreign Language (9/18), Physics and Biology are continuing
assessment.
d. Dates for 3rd Cohort Meetings in Fall 2012: 1:30 - 3:30 p. m. on 9/14/12 @ LV, 10/12/12 @
BR, 11/16/12 @ BTC; 3rd Cohort: Art, English, Library, Music, Political Science,
Speech/Theater
Higher Learning Commission Update
a. Reminder: The current version of the Assurance Criteria revisions is available
http://www.ncahlc.org/.
Assessment Reports
Human Diversity AssessmentHuman Diversity faculty got together to develop common outcomes. They have developed outcomes and a
rubric. They are still deciding on artifacts to use for the assessment. The following challenges were noted;
there are no faculty specifically hired for Human Diversity and the faculty who teach human diversity
courses change. It is recommended that Outcome #2 be assessed. Faculty will grade their own artifacts. They
are looking to begin in spring 2013.
Proposals for new assessment or survey requests
 ETS has asked us to participate in a research study exploring reading skills and levels of academic
proficiency necessary for college success. ETS would ask us to recruit students to complete a 2-part
online assessment for which they would be paid $40. For our participation, MCC would receive a
$2000 incentive. They would only need 25-50 students which brought up concerns for the sample
size. ETS would like us to write a letter of support to help them receive a grant to accomplish this
study. Melissa will follow-up on concerns and email the committee. A vote was taken by email and
it was decided to participate in the study.
 Melissa is working on a Prospect Survey being administered via phone at the request of Vice
Chancellor Stanley.
 Melissa and Casey Reid administered a pre-survey for all of COLL 100 on-campus students.
 A Learning Community pre-survey has been sent out.
 Kimberly Glackin and Melissa have been revising the GRIT survey for the fall administration. The
assessment will be expanded to include LV and possibly the entire district.
 Vice Chancellor Stanley, Kristy, Kathy Hale, and Melissa have been working on deploying an online
survey to all students regarding Financial Aptitude. The survey is being conducted by Inceptia who
will provide us with the results for our students.
Campus Reports
DACC still needs the following members: BR-1, BTC-2, LV-1, and PV-1
 BR- the GRIT survey is being revised and plans for fall administration are in progress with LV and
PV, and possibly with BTC and MW.
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BTC- the Assessment & Curriculum committees officially merged and are moving forward with
assessing programs.
LV- hasn’t met yet. Nancy is the new co-chair. Tammie is recruiting faculty for the GRIT.
MW- No report
PV- is currently in the process of merging the curriculum and assessment committees.
MoHealthWins- Recruiting is being formalized as well as an assessment of content and satisfaction.
Students have been enrolled in the first set of classes and the first set of data has been submitted to
the Data Coordinator.
Old Business
a. The 3rd Annual Regional Community College Assessment Conference is being
hosted by JCCC next spring.
b. Convocation (February 12, 2012) will focus on program review, the AA review and
KPI’s. Mary Ann Blitt and Cynthia Sexton Proctor will work with Rich to begin a
task force for convocation planning.
c. Kristy has drafted a Survey Policy to look at surveying our students and employees.
It went to DSCIA with the goal that all surveys (with a few exceptions) would go
through DACC.
d. A Discipline Review Task Force is forming. Discipline review has not occurred for
several years and needs to be started again before our HLC review. It was agreed
that this work would begin at convocation in the spring.
New Business
None
The meeting was adjourned.
Future MeetingOct. 11th, PVCC 503
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