Shared Governance Assessment Committee
September 28, 2015 MEETING NOTES
3:00 pm in LBR362 (Marine Room)
Part A: Committee Activity
1. Called to order at: 3:05 pm
2. Review of the agenda
3. Approval of minutes from September 24 by consent.
Part B: Active Topics
1. Response from HLC. Waiting until further notification from HLC staff.
2. Follow-up Items
a. Tracdat user resources re-sent to campus
3. Review of Surveys
a. Discussion of the 2012 course survey and consideration of whether to run the same survey again. The
value of using the same survey again to provide pre-post data was stressed.
b. Discussion of the Assessment Perceptions: Academic survey from spring 2014. Concerns about the
motivation of assessment at the institutional level, and a level of trust about that motivation.
c. The committee will review both the Academic and the Non-academic/c-Curricular survey for extended
discussion at the next meeting.
i. Assessment Perceptions – Non-academic CoCurricular
http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/documents/Assessment-perceptions-staff2.pdf
ii. Assessment Perceptions – Academics
http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/documents/Assessment-perceptions-faculty2.pdf
4. Next meeting date: October 19.
Part C: Holding Area
1. HLC Academy Results Forum
a. Impact Report – revisions and edits needed
b. Poster – v.2 draft now available
c. Travel Team – selection delayed until session is confirmed
d. Swag for poster session
2. University Assessment Plan
http://www.lssu.edu/president/strategicplanning.php
a. Review of charge http://www.lssu.edu/sharedgovernance/assessment/charge.php
3. Review of surveys
a. Spring 2012 Course Survey http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/documents/CourseAssessmentReportSpring2012.pdf
b. Draft spring 2016 follow-up survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CKN6BSG
c. Assessment Perceptions – Academics
http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/documents/Assessment-perceptions-faculty2.pdf
d. Assessment Perceptions – Non-academic CoCurricular
http://www.lssu.edu/assessment/documents/Assessment-perceptions-staff2.pdf
4. Recommendation on release time
a. “The committee recommends that release time be made available to academic schools to carry out the
coordination of assessment and program review.”
5. Assessment in Program Review - “Memo to Chairs - Program Review. The University is committed to
delivering quality programs. Please submit a program review narrative that addresses program quality
through measures of external validation and program assessment. This may be an opportunity to additionally
define program needs. The program review narrative is expected to be less than five pages. Programs that are
externally accredited may provide an executive summary of their accreditation report with references to the
original document as their Review.”
6. The committee recommends that a definition on “the practice of assessment and validity of the assessment
process” be established and proposes the following: The formal standards for practice and validity of
assessment in a school shall be collaboratively established and approved by the faculty of that school.
7. Targeted Assessment Projects (TAP) Mini-grant program
8. Committee membership – changes at SGOC
9. Review of General Education assessment
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a. General Education Courses report
b. General Education Outcomes report
Syllabus Review of Student Learning Outcomes
Program Assessment – review of the assessment sections of current program reviews
Co-curricular Assessment
Administrative Services and Support Assessment
Strategic Plan Assessment
Assessment Vocabulary
LSSU-specific name for assessment system (other than Tracdat), i.e. Anchor Access is really Banner INB
Other
Part D: Other matters Rising
1. Other
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2015-2016 Assessment Committee Members:
September 28, 2015 Meeting attendance – =in attendance
 Evan Schemm, Faculty, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Term expires 2018 (Chair)
Sandi King, Faculty, School of Health Sciences, term expires 2016 (Vice-Chair)
 Dave Myton, Associate Provost for Assessment, Education and Graduate Studies (Secretary)
George Denger, Faculty, School of Arts and Letters, term expires 2018
 Robert Hildebrand, College of Business and Engineering, term expires 2016 (non-replacement position)
Mindy McCready, Faculty, Lukenda School of Business, Term expires 2018
Joe Moening, Faculty, School of Engineering and Technology. Term expires 2018
 Barb Light, Faculty, School of Education, Term expires 2018
Vacant, School Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences . Term expires 2018
Jillena Rose, School of Liberal Studies (no term specified)
Vacant, School of Biological Sciences
 Steve Johnson, School of Physical Sciences (no date listed)
Vacant, School of Recreation Studies and Exercise Sciences (no term listed)
Vacant, AP representative, Term expires 2017
 Mari Schupp, AP representative, Term expires 2018
Douglas Grunder, ESP representative, joined 9/2015, term expires 2018
 Marcia Jenkins-Ball, ESP representative term expires 2018
Vacant, Student
Vacant, Student
Guests:
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