COUNCIL ON ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT (CAA) DRAFT MINUTES, NOVEMBER 8TH, 2012 UNH 105, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Members present: Adrian Masters (Chair), Janelle Adsit, Deborah Bernnard, Sue Faerman, Jennifer Goodall, Ilka Kressner, Sean Rafferty, Joan Savitt, Brian Stephenson, Bruce Szelest. Staff present: Joel Bloom, Steven Doellefeld Members absent: Greg Nowell, Kevin Williams 1. Call to order. 2. New member, Jennifer Goodall (Informatics), was introduced and welcomed to the Council. 3. The minutes of the October 11th meeting were reviewed and approved with minor revisions. 4. Chairs’ Reports CAA (Adrian Masters). Nothing to report. GEAC (Deborah Bernnard). The Chair discussed the October GEAC meeting at which The Director of Assessment presented a draft outline for the GEAC report; it was decided that the Committee will use the outline as a guide, but would not be entirely bound by that format. Greg Nowell reviewed the documents from Oral Discourse (2010-2011) and found that the reporting was more complete than for previous categories reviewed. The Committee will move on to Natural and Social Sciences next. APRC (Sean Rafferty). The APRC met and approved a report for the Art and Art History program review process, to be discussed at the November Council meeting. At our subsequent meetings we will review Anthropology (the Chair will recuse himself from that meeting). The APRC Chair, CAA Chair and Director of Assessment will draft letters for Deans and department chairs regarding the new mid-cycle assessment review process. 5. Director’s Report (Joel Bloom). Nothing new to report. The Director and Associate Director will meet with Sue Faerman and Leslie Halpern to discuss any outstanding logistical issues related to the scheduling of General Education assessments. 6. Old Business. None. 7. New Business: Review of the Art and Art History program review assessment (Janelle Adsit). It was pointed out that the Council and the Committee should not be commenting on fiscal matters by and large, but rather on academic matters. A few additional changes were discussed, both substantive and non-substantive. The Council approved the Committee report as revised. Assessment in the proposed First-Year Writing Program. The lower-level writing requirement is being replaced by a first-year writing seminar; according to the Charter Amendment, the director of this program should be a Council member ex officio. The propriety of this proposal was discussed. Assessment of competencies within the major (Adrian Masters). The question here is to what extent the Council should be involved with this. Sue Faerman pointed out that the UAC is already working on department plans, and suggested that the Council should coordinate with this. Joel Bloom will also be on the advisory committee, which will have its first meeting later this semester. 8. Adjournment