The Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness Committee met on Feb. 23, 2021.
The meeting minutes are as follows:
Dr. Margaret Geehan opened the meeting at 1 p.m.
1. Middle States Update
a. Geehan began the meeting by reminding everyone that the Middle States Design Draft must be done by April 10. The committee will have the opportunity to review it.
b. By next March 5, she and Joe Stenard will have a rough draft of the Middle States Self-Study Design document completed.
2. IE Report
a. The group continued to do the “quick review” of the IE Report Core Indicators started at the last meeting. The group picked up on Student Retention Core Indicator where it had left off.
b. The group looked at retention and talked about how we need to research as a college how we compare to other community colleges to see where we rank among SUNY schools with enrollment. We are currently fifth, but have had issues with decreasing enrollment since before COVID, and therefore want to research and see why that is.
c. Dr. Gloria Baez pointed out that we want to take a look at and research the colleges whose enrollment is increasing because we might be able to determine what they are doing differently and emulate them, or get ideas from them, and hopefully increase our enrollment.
3. Core Indicator Overall Review Update
a. The group discussed enrollment within the Core Indicator Report as well. They discussed whether or not we need to change the Core Indicator surrounding enrollment and what we will get out of following it? Does it need to be worded differently? What kind of information do we need to get out of our Core Indicators? No conclusive answers were yet come to. These questions are still being left open.
b. Overall with each Core Indicator, the committee went through it, and decided whether to keep it, keep it with changes, or discard it.
c. SUNY is putting out a new Student Opinion Survey that will be distributed annually instead of every three years, as it used to be. Hudson Valley always produced its own Student Satisfaction Survey each year the SUNY SOS was not distributed in order to get data each year. Now Hudson Valley will not need to make its own survey if SUNY’s survey is distributed each year. It will be good to have SUNY do this on an annual basis because it means more data for us to draw from (aggregate data from SUNY community colleges) and compare Hudson Valley’s results with.
d. The group discussed Core Indicator 2.4 Student Satisfaction. Table 2.4.1 has specific and more general items from the Student Satisfaction/Student Opinion Survey, and when we get the results from the SUNY survey this spring, we will revisit this core indicator to see if we want to make any changes to the items included. A screenshot can be provided on request.
f. Goal 3 — Pluralism. The group discussed how we should attempt to fairly and accurately compare minority numbers enrollment-wise with those of white HVCC students. The group also discussed why Native American numbers have gone up so sharply, and whether or not they truly have. This discussion led Geehan to realize that there was a typo in the current number of Native American students and that it hadn’t increased as exponentially as represented in the table. This will be fixed.
The meeting adjourned at 2 p.m.
The next meeting is March 9 at 1 p.m.
AIE Members
Gloria Baez
Clem Campana
Colleen Ferris
Patti 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: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:55:04 +0000 by c.gerardi