The Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness Committee met on March 9. The meeting minutes are as follows.
Dr. Margaret Geehan opened the meeting at 1 p.m.
1. Middle States Update
a. The group opened by briefly discussing the recent open forums and how they made the Self-Study and Institutional Priorities documents stronger. The forums were useful and productive in this way, and it is good that we had them.
2. Core Indicator Review
a. The remainder of the meeting was spent with Dr. Geehan scrolling through the Core Indicators on a shared screen and the group discussing the best edits for them, particularly adding more data points.
b. The group provided input on each of the Core Indicators, changing many of them minorly throughout the document. A screenshot of some of these indicators as they were being edited can be provided upon request.
c. The group discussed what the term “first-time full-time” when used by IPEDs and in the IE Report. A student who has never been to college before is a “first-time full-time” student (College in the High School credit doesn’t count here). Therefore a student who leaves the college fully, then re-enrolls is not considered a first-time student. However, when considering retention or time to graduation a student who starts as a “first-time full-time student” remains one even if they return or graduate on a part-time basis.
d. The group reviewed the SUNY SCoA rubrics: Institutional Effectiveness Rubric and Program Learning Assessment Rubrics. A discussion about how to utilize the rubrics followed, including suggestions about asking the department chairs, faculty, deans, AVPAA, VPAA to examine their programs through the lens of the Program Learning Assessment rubric, and using the Institutional Effectiveness rubric as an “assessing the assessment” tool, with more concise, compact language.
e. The group discussed what “DL” now means. It was acknowledged that remote learning can, and has, expanded the definition of this because remote learning also includes synchronous instruction with Zoom.
f. It was noted that the State Education Department (SED) has extended the DL COVID time reprieve along with SUNY. A streamlined approval process for SUNY is being worked on.
g. We can have almost as many programs online as we want, but we will need to get them approved by SUNY/SED in the typical way again once COVID is “over.” This process has been waived during the pandemic to enable lots of professors to get their courses online quickly. But once the pandemic is over, we will need to get any new online programs approved. This is something we will need to keep in mind to properly market and offer our course catalog.
h. The group also reviewed the Core Indicators document chart by chart, and people had opportunities to give feedback on them. Screenshots of the charts the group went over can be provided on request.
The meeting adjourned at 2 p.m.
The next meeting will take place Tuesday, April 6 at 1 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Caitlyn Gerardi
AIE Members
Gloria Baez
Clem Campana
Colleen Ferris
Pat Gaston
Margaret Geehan
Caitlyn Gerardi
Antoinette Howard
Matt Howe
Alan Joseph
Dennis Kennedy
Pat Klimkewicz
Jim Macklin
Margaret Mann
Karen Paquette
Kathy Petley
Chrissy Smith
Joseph Stenard
Ainsley Thomas
Brian Vlieg
Dennis Wax
Ronalyn Wilson
Published: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:00:01 +0000 by c.gerardi