WASC Commitee
February 13, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Haak Boardroom - 4115
Members Present: Shirley Armbruster, Nagy Bengiamin, Bryan Berrett, Michael Caldwell, Carolyn Coon,
Michelle Den Beste, Xuanning Fu, Tracey Garza, Bob Harper, Asao Inoue, Andrew Lawson, Jane Magee, Jim
Marshall, Maxine McDonald, Scott Moore, Bob Murphy, Arun Nambiar, Dennis Nef, Philip Neufeld, Jim
Prince, Chuck Radke, Melanie Ram, Rebecca Raya-Fernandez, David Schecter, Dave Tyckoson, Terence Wan,
Lynnette Zelezny, & Laura Alcantar
Members Absent: Thomas Boeh, Sharon Brown-Welty, Jose Diaz, Daniel Griffin, Arthur Montejano, and
Fariborz Tehrani,
Call to Order: 10:02 a.m.
I.
II.
Announcements
Welcome to all all of the new members. You were nominated by your peers, when we discussed the
need for more participants. Thank you for accepting this nomination.
a. Update on external reviewer – L. Zelezny
A reviewer is coming to campus and X. Fu created the draft SOAP external review matrix sample
document for our SOAP review. Provost wants to be able to visualize where we have gaps.
Please review the attached document and feel free to make any comments and suggestions. X. Fu
advised the committee to send him any comments about the template. We are trying to have a
complete template that lists all the major SOAP plans. Carol Gittens will take a look and give a
rating to our SOAPs. L. Zelezny asked the group to pass the word out to other constituents on
campus.
b. Nomination of Jim Prince for Leadership Assessment
Dr. Prince has been nominated to Leadership Assessment by his Dean and we fully support him.
c. Dr. Angel Sanchez – WASC Executive
Dr. Sanchez will join our Executive committee and X. Fu will continue in our general committee.
Review December 6, 2012 meeting notes
Meeting notes were reviewed and approved
III.
Box.com update – P. Neufeld
Fresno State will be adopting box.com as our cloud collaboration system. P. Neufeld showed a video
prepared by a student. Box.com can act as an online my documents folder. The reason why we are
looking at box.com for the committee is because it saves the document and it allows file sharing. L.
Zelezny informed that this is the same system that WASC will be using in terms of file sharing.
IV.
Undergraduate Retention/Graduation Rate Data – X. Fu
Dimitri from Institutional Effectiveness is finalizing the WASC data report. X. Fu expects the draft
report to be available in about two weeks. The draft undergraduate retention data persistence document
provided to the committee shows the comparison rate. This chart shows that 2004 has been Fresno
State’s best year. This data shows that our graduation data rate is improving. List of interventions
should be listed in the narrative report to WASC. D. Nef informed the committee that since 2009 there
has been a Graduation Rate Initiative group. At the CSU level, Fresno State has been acknowledged for
all the programs to improve our graduation rate.
V.
Subcommittee Reports, Progress and Timelines:
a. Website – J. Marshall
The website subcommittee showed the newly organized WASC website. It has a fresh new look
and requested that the executive committee discussed the “Main Page” and the “About WASC”
for new text. This subcommittee also introduced the agenda and meeting notes templates to be
used by all of the committees for future meetings.
b. Meaning, Quality & Integrity of the Degree – A. Lawson
This subcommittee provided a timeline and plans to have the first draft ready on February 21st for
this committee to review.
c. Core Competency – X. Fu
The group is reviewing their membership. This sub-committee would like to invite Monica
Fusich, and a student. M. Fusich will be able to provide key information about information
literacy. The executive committee in consultation with AP&P selected to report on writing as our
core competency for our WASC accreditation report. A. Inoue informed the committee that our
campus has been collecting direct writing of portfolios from students. C. Radke informed the
group that he collects writing sample at the graduate level. C. Radke accepted a nomination to be
part of the Core Competency subcommittee.
VI.
Workshops Reports:
a. Jan. 23 – 26 ~ AACU Quality of the US Degrees – A. Lawson, D. Nef and J. Prince
i. A. Lawson informed that the best information presented at this conference was about
ePortfolios. D. Nef invited members of the core competencies subcommittees to be part
of the ePortfolios committee.
b. Jan 30 ~ WASC Assessment 101 – A. Nambiar
i. A. Nambiar attended the WASC Assessment 101 and informed that they shared very good
assessment tools. He will be happy to share the binder he was given. A. Nambiar will
share this information with the core competency subcommittee.
c. Jan 31 – Feb. 1 ~ WASC Retreat on Student Success – A. Lawson and X. Fu
i. A. Lawson attended this conference and feels that our campus is in a very good shape with
all of the initiatives that we have on campus. He feels that this part of the report will be a
strong.
VII.
VIII.
Upcoming Workshops:
a. Feb. 14 – 15 ~ WASC Retreat of Assessment of Learning at San Jose, CA – S. Moore and M.
Ram
b. April 9 – 12 ~ WASC Academic Resource Conference at San Diego, CA – B. Berrett, S. Elrod,
A. Lawson, D. Nef, J. Prince, D. Tyckoson, L. Zelezny
Next WASC Meeting: March 14th 10:00 – 11:00 am, Haak Center Boardroom
Adjourn: 10:57 a.m.