LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL
March 12, 2015 Minutes
Approved – April 9, 2015
Co-Chairs:
Present:
Absent:
Recorder:
Berta Cuaron, Wendy Nelson, Marty Furch, Susan Miller
Berta Cuaron, April Cunningham, Sarah De Simone, Michael Deal, Kelly Falcone, Erin
Feld, Marty Furch, Michael Gilkey, John Harland, Cheryl Kearse, Naomi Lowe, Norma
Miyamoto, Michael Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Rocco Versaci
Daniella Ashburn, Michelle Barton, Melinda Carrillo, Brooke Crawford, Adrian
Gonzales, Susan Miller, Mollie Smith, Brian Stockert
Marti Snyder
The meeting was called to order by LOC Co-Chair Marty Furch at 2:08 p.m.
1. Approve Minutes 1/29/15
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2. Announcements
None.
3. Accreditation Update
Berta announced the commendation of SLOs by the evaluation team. During the accreditation visit,
there were a number of conversations between evaluation team and LOC members. The team
acknowledged that Palomar’s SLOAC work is unique, but authentic. Berta mentioned that we should
applaud our progress on SLOACs but recognize that there is still work to be done.
The ACCJC annual report is due to the Commission on March 31, 2015. Berta encouraged faculty to
contact SLO coordinators with any questions regarding the report or with any success stories for
contribution to the narrative components of the annual report.
4. Program SLOs in the Catalog
Beginning Fall 2016, program outcomes will appear in both the print and online versions of the college
catalog. SLOAC facilitators of each department should review program SLOs and forward them to their
respective deans. Program SLOs should be turned in no later than October 2015 for inclusion in the
2016-17 catalog.
Norma suggested that SLOs be turned in during the month of September to tie into the pre-launch
timeline for new courses.
Marty encouraged each department to post SLOs on their department websites.
5. Student Learning Support Activities
Marty reviewed the list of current student learning and support activities as they appear on TracDat.
The council reviewed and offered additions to the list, which will be forwarded to Student Services for
feedback regarding support services under their division. An accurate list is required as part of the
annual report to ACCJC.
6. Dashboard Feedback
April informed the council that an assessment of Dashboard is still pending. Currently, there is no
accurate measure to assess Dashboard do to the manner in which students access the tool. April
mentioned variables that would currently skew the results of an assessment under current conditions.
Kelly suggested that Dashboard be moved from Course Sites and into Blackboard allowing for automatic
enrollment for all students and a printout of a certificate of completion upon completion of the course.
Kelly suggested that a conversation with David Gray would need to take place in order to explore this
option.
7. GE/ILO Timeline
Wendy informed the council that GE/ILOs will continue to be labeled as such and will not be separated
from each other. There are funds available to assess GE/ILOs in Fall 2015 and the council needs to
determine which GE/ILO will be assessed. Wendy will email the rubric on Integrative Learning for the
council’s review and discuss feedback at the next meeting.
8. GE/ILO Update (Intercultural & Written Communication)
Wendy sent out an email to recruit faculty to assess Intercultural Competency and Knowledge and there
were 17 volunteers after the first day. The goal is to have at least 40 courses participate in the
assessment.
A workgroup met on Friday, March 6 to discuss the results of the Written Communication assessment.
Scores for the assessment were much higher than anticipated. Council members who participated in the
workgroup shared theories on why the results of the assessment were so high. Additional data from IRP
will be requested to answer questions about the assessment and the results. The workgroup will
reconvene in April and will have recommendations for future assessments by the end of the spring
semester.
Meeting adjourned at 3:25 p.m.
Next Meeting: March 26, 2015
2:00-3:30 p.m.
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