Minutes: High Impact, First Contact Committee (Draft)
May 8, 2000
Present: Brenda Amenson-Hill, Shannon Byrne, Ann Deprey, Scott Furlong, John Gerow, Cheryl
Grosso, Leanne Hansen, Mimi Kubsch, Chuck Matter, Sarah Meredith, Marlene Regan, Laura
Sear, Linda Toonen, and Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges
Absent: Aeron Haynie, Joanelle Jackson, Mike Stearney, and Nicole Suchomel
Friday, May 5, 2000, 2:00
Before we began the agenda items, Scott distributed the Academic Advising Proposal developed
in 1999 for us to read, and Chuck Matter distributed information on the Liberal Education
Seminar and described them to the group
Agenda
1. Subcommittee for Recommendation #3- Peer Development Groups
John Gerow and Marlene Regan were appointed co-chairs of this subcommittee
Sarah Meredith, Mimi Kubsch and Shannon Byrne are the other members
- assignment to gather data and look for models
- due by the end of May
Scott said he will develop the first recommendation, and will send it around next week
2. Continue discussion of First Year Seminar
--The poll—Linda Toonen passed around the list of criteria we developed last week rated by
her students. We discussed that list as well as the others sent out during the week as email
--Exercise for clarification/combination Scott put us through an exercise where we had to
take turns arranging the goals of the Freshman Seminar in categories. They ended up something
like this:
Engaging teachers
Mentors
Collaboration
Small groups
Learning styles
Socialization
Critical thinking
Intellectual stimulation
Values/effects
Reflective learning
Focus Topics
Content-Based
Foundation/Preparation for College
Skills
Support Services
Academic honesty
Life-long learning
Culture of the University
Education across areas Conflict resolution
Expanding horizons
Reading
Diversity issues
Communication
Global citizens
Community outreach
Fundamental structure
Sketch a path
Information literacy
Learning plan
Portfolios
A great deal of discussion went into the creation of the lists, and we found ourselves back at the
beginning, looking at SOAR and Intro to College
--Cheryl Grosso brought up duplication—why teach something more than once?
Goals of Soar--What do you need to know to register?
-register students
-advise students
-orientation of parents
Goals of Intro to College--What do you need to know before the first day of class/
-orientation of students to the university
Goals of the Freshman Seminar—What do you need to know ?
-Foundation for college
-Foundation for life
What looks so simple of paper, was not so simple in our discussion. We discovered that we had
a great deal to think about. After an hour and a half we adjourned at 3:30 and will meet again on
Tues., May 9 at 9:30 in Alumni A&B. This is a draft only and is waiting for your corrections.
Ann Deprey