Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, September 8, 2011
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Board Room
Minutes
Attendees: Tammie May, Kristy Bishop, Linda Nelson, Tristan Londre, Fran Padow, Al Dimmit, Cheryl
Carpenter-Davis, Dachia Scroggins, Mindy McCallum, Karen Moore, Leo Hirner, Melissa Giese, Greg
Sanford, Patricia McGovern, Cynthia Sexton-Proctor, Anne Dvorak, Felipe Leon, Lisa Bonneau
Approval of Minutes
The minutes were not presented, but will be emailed following the meeting. Minutes were given provisional
approval.
Vice Chancellor for Educational Services & Technology Report
DACC Membership, Structure and Charge
Due to the changing needs at MCC, the DSCIA policy is being revised to reflect the new structure and
responsibilities that will comprise the DACC (District Assessment Coordinating Committee). The new
charge of the DACC is concurrently being rewritten. These responsibilities include: reviewing surveys,
assessment projects, and work on the Improvement projects for the Pathways Cohort.
Proposed structure would mirror the DICC in regards to campus & discipline representation, reflecting the
majority of membership being faculty. There would be both voting and non-voting (resource) members.
Several new DACC members were added; George Green –BR, Jared Rinck-BR, and Felipe Leon-PV.
Currently this new structure has good representation; however more membership is still needed at BTC,
MW, and PV.
In addition to DACC membership, the DACC Planning/Executive Committee is being formed comprising a
small set of membership. Currently there are 7 members representing each campus and the administrative
center, with the majority (4) of members being faculty. George Green-BR was added as the 7th member.
The DACC Planning/Executive Committee would work to gather the information necessary to organize and
prepare for the DACC general meetings so action items can be efficiently taken. After discussion, a 6th
responsibility was added to this groups charge: to be the decision making body.
There was concern that clarification and communication were needed to determine when faculty needed to
go through DACC for approval. A Discussion establishing guidelines for assessment projects policy ensued.
It was agreed that any assessment being done in the classroom solely does not need to go through DACC.
Assessment projects should go through DACC if they are wide-scale, or more specifically, more than 1
classroom, discipline wide and/or district-wide. Rationale is so that all assessment efforts beyond one’s own
classroom are documented for inclusion into the Pathways project documentation. If external entities are
being utilized within the classroom for individual classroom assessment, an IRB must be done even though it
would not necessarily need to go through DACC for approval.
IRB Report

The IRB committee is in the process of being formed. The PRP is being rewritten and training is
being discussed.
1
Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, September 8, 2011

3-4:30 PM
Room AC Board Room
The OIRA is still receiving IRB requests. A letter of support was given to KU so they can obtain a
grant. Once the grant is obtained KU will award their IRB approval and then MCC can give official
IRB approval.
HLC Committee Report
This committee has yet to be formed. The committee will be working on the assurance criteria for HLC.
Survey Reports
Culture of Assessment Survey
The Culture of Assessment Survey was administered at campus In- Services. Overall a 29% response rate
was reported for all MCC faculty, staff and administrators/officers. There have been excellent response rates
for FT faculty. There are still groups not adequately represented that are currently in process. The
administrative center has not had a large scale opportunity to participate yet, as it did not have an in-service.
Melissa Giese is going to the AC staff association next week and working with the Vice Chancellor’s to get
the surveys administered to their groups.
Response Rates
Campus
AC
BR
BTC
LV
MW
PV
TOTAL by
Employee
group
FT Faculty
0%
18%
107%
67%
45%
77%
61%
Adjunct
X
5%
3%
24%
6%
25%
16%
Staff
1%
26%
73%
17%
26%
50%
23%
Administrators
16%
60%
100%
100%
20%
57%
Total
4%
16%
54%
34%
21%
50%
37%
Concerns regarding the reliability of results were addressed. Lack of effort to complete the survey was
repeatedly witnessed at LV. Additional concerns were; survey fatigue and small font.
General Education Outcomes Attributes Survey
Cynthia provided a summary of the comments provided by faculty. Overall outcomes were seen favorably.
Concerns were discussed and evaluated.
MCC Open Pathway Improvement Project Report
General Education Outcomes and Attributes
1st cohorts will be asked to choose 1 outcome and a minimum of 1 attribute to focus on. It was suggested that
a task force be formed to work further on the attributes and rubrics.
General Education Outcomes Rubrics
Tristan, Greg, and Anne will email the group sample rubrics for future discussion.
2
Metropolitan Community College
DACC MEETING
Thursday, September 8, 2011
3-4:30 PM
Room AC Board Room
Newsletter
Greg Sanford published a monthly newsletter to be disseminated to faculty. OIRA will link this newsletter to
their website page relaying HLC pathways project information. This newsletter should be also put as a link in
the MCC Insider.
1st cohort meeting
Meeting for the 1st cohort is Friday 9-9-2011 at Longview EC 113.
Notebooks/resources for 1st cohort
Notebooks were completed for each of the disciplines by the OIRA. Kristy Bishop and Cynthia Sexton
Proctor will be at the meeting to distribute and serve as a DACC resource.
MCC Open Pathways Assurance Report
This committee will be created by the Vice Chancellor in the next couple of months. This is the same thing
as HLC Committee report above.
Higher Learning Commission Update

Paul, Kristy, and Cynthia will be attending the HLC Regional Forum – Sept. 15
(http://www.ncahlc.org/information-for-institutions/proposed-revisions-to-the-criteria-foraccreditation.html)
Assessment Reports
Proposals for new assessment or survey requests
Campus Reports
Old Business
New Business
The meeting was adjourned.
Future Meetings
October 13th at 3:00 p.m
3