General Education Assessment Committee
February 8, 2016
MSU, Room 323
Present: Mary Eicholtz (at-large teaching faculty), William Donner (SPRC), Gil Clary (Office of
Assessment), Varsha Pandya (CLAS), David Beougher (Academic Dean), Patricia Derr (Gen Ed
Committee), Kim Shively (at-large teaching faculty), Matthew Delaney (Admin & Finance), Krista Prock
(at-large non-teaching faculty).
Absent: Megan Luckenbaugh (Student Representative), George Sirrakos (COE), Valerie Trollinger
(VPA), Robert Folk (at-large teaching faculty), Stephen Hensler (COB).
Eicholtz called the meeting to order at 12:30 pm.
Minutes: Eicholtz introduced the Minutes from the November 12, 2015 meeting for approval. Motion
to approve the Minutes made by Shively; seconded by Clary. Minutes are approved.
VSA: Clary met with the Deans about VSA. The Deans and Provost are supportive of the project. On
February 18th, they will meet with the chairs to talk about the VSA project. They will try to get projects
highlighting critical thinking and written communication or both. A pool will be created, then some
projects chosen, and a group of coders recruited. Dr. Zayaitz indicated professional development
money will be available. About $250 will be available for each of 25-30 evaluators.
The Deans asked questions at the meeting. They hope to talk about the mechanics for depositing student
projects. Discussion followed. We are not trying to evaluate any faculty, program or department. The
evaluations at this time will be kept internal.
Summary of Domain Requests and Compliance: Eicholtz circulated a copy of the document and
explained that we have data for each domain, except from 1.3b and 1.8. Eicholtz will follow up with
those departments who had previously committed to supplying data to see if they are complete. Eicholtz
has requested a D2L account to set up a site for GEAC and all GEAC members are “instructors”. Next
step is to write the report by the end of the semester. The Executive Committee will create a draft for
each domain of the report will be submitted on the D2L account, and then the Committee will refine
the report.
Reports from Years 1 and 2 were distributed. Discussion followed. Eicholtz will create a template and
then send it to the Committees.
Responsibility for each domain will go to the following committee member –
1.1
1.2
1.3(a)
1.3(b)
1.4(a)
1.4(b)
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
Inquiry and Analysis
Decision Making
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Written Communication
Oral Communication
Quantitative Literacy
Information Literacy
Teamwork and problem Solving
Wellness
K. Shively
M. Eicholtz
P. Derr/W. Donner
R. Folk/G. Sirrakos
M. Eicholtz
G. Sirrakos
K. Prock
G. Clary
Timeline: your draft should be submitted on the D2L site by March 1, 2016.
Spring Tasks: We will need to decide how we will approach Goal 2 and how to solicit data from the
campus community.
Upcoming meetings: No meeting on February 15, 2016 and the next meeting will occur on February
29, 2016 at 12:30 pm. At the meeting on March 21, 2016, we will need to talk about data collection
for the fall.
Willingness to Serve: Moe Folk’s position will be open because he is on the committee replacing Janice
Gasker until the end of her term, which is May 2016.
Meeting adjourned at 1:05 pm.
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