Shared Governance Assessment Committee
October 7, 2014 – Notes
2014-2015 Assessment Committee
Members:
 Barb Keller, Dean, College of
Natural & Mathematical Sciences
1. Discussion of Meeting day/time
 ESP representative
a. Reviewed schedule of availability – agreed this week’s
 ESP representative #2
day/time will NOT be the regular time. A new Doodle Poll
 Katie Kalata, Faculty, College of
will be distributed before the next meeting
Natural & Mathematical Sciences,
b. Shared Governance Oversight Committee has not provided
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the additional members needed. J. Gerrie recommended
 Barb Light, Faculty, Education,
we proceed with our meetings pending their action.
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2. Transparency in Assessment reporting
 Faculty Representative - ALSSES
a. Reviewed the web pages maintained by the Assessment
 Robert Hildebrand, College of
Committee, the Academy Project, etc
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b. http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/
3. HLC Academy for Assessment of Student Learning Report
 Sandra King, College of Health
Sciences, Term expires June 30,
a. We submitted the version 5.0 update in August and
2016 (attending clinical today)
discussed the HLC Reviewer feedback which was generally

Paige Gordier, AP representative,
positive and supportive of the progress led by the
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committee. Comments suggested “imposed deadlines for
 Ben Southwell, AP representative,
compliance”, examining the causes of “foot dragging”, and
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the process of Academic Program Review as an
 Student representative, student
institutional focus as we have the “HLC visit looming”. The
 Student representative, student
reviewers noted that “you cannot afford to be caught
 Dave Myton, Chair Assoc.Provost
without significant progress on your program assessment
 George Denger, Academy Team
processes” and two need to “think about becoming more
(attending class today)
aggressive in what is expected”

Joe Moening, Academy Team
b. http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/academy_project_home.php
(conflicting meeting today)
4. Course and Program Review Feedback
 Mindy McCready, Academy Team
a. Extended discussion on the course-level feedback given
Guests:
through the Deans to each school. One course was
reviewed by the Assessment Committee last summer with
the goal to identify strengths and opportunities for
improvement or additional focus. Concerns raised about
the reviewer references to high-school standards in an
assessment report were discussed. Myton will follow-up on
identifying Michigan secondary content standards and making that information available to
schools
b. Progress in course and program assessment was reviewed, while not meeting the targets we
are making progress – see Figure 1 in the document:
http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/documents/SupplementalNarrativetoVersion5.pdf
c.
Faculty have inquired if the Assessment Committee would review additional courses upon
request. The committee expressed support for this, Myton will include an invitation in the next
Provost Report.
d. http://www.lssu.edu/sharedgovernance/assessment/documents.php
5. Fall 2014 Photo-Assessment Project
a. Committee affirmed their desire to conduct cycle 2 of the Digital Assessment Project designed
to give university community members an opportunity to make submissions about what is good
and what needs improved about LSSU. This year the committee increased from 10% to 25% of
faculty, students and staff who will be solicited for input, but reduced the number of
submissions requested to 4 in each of two categories: “best of LSSU” and “improving LSSU”.
Myton will send invitations with goal to not include individuals who were included previously.
The text of the website where the photos are submitted (username “da” and password “lssu”)
was modified to reflect the revised methodology.
b. http://www.lssu.edu/provost/digitalassessment/
c. NEW TEXT: The Assessment Committee periodically invites a number of randomly selected students, faculty, and staff
to submit up to four photos that capture the best of the LSSU experience, up to four that capture areas needing
improvement. It is up to you to determine what those terms mean to you - but they may NOT be photos singling out
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people. These photos will serve as an important tool for a comprehensive assessment of the university. We will present
the findings in a university-wide event and post the compilation online. By submitting your photo you are giving
permission to the use of the photo described above. Photographer names will not be distributed in the public reports. All
photos must be submitted by Friday, December 5, 2014. To report issues with your upload, or for questions or
comments, contact Dr. David Myton at dmyton@lssu.edu.
6. Targeted Assessment Projects
a. The Committee affirmed the continuation of the TAP funding and revised the timeline:
announcement 1st Friday in October (actually a day late on that), applications are due the 1 st
Friday in November, and awards will be announced the 1st Friday in December. Myton will
include notification of the TAP project mini-grants in the October Provost’s Newsletter.
b. https://sites.google.com/a/lssu.edu/sg-assessment-committee/tap-mini-grant
7. Other Business
a. None. All agreed an early adjournment would be best. Adjourned at 10:46 am.
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