Assessment Committee Meeting Minutes
April 24, 2009

Members Present:  Barb Coleman, Tom Phillips, Janet Fisher, John Black, Jeramie Rick,
Trish Hayden

Members Absent:  Janice Ramsey

Agenda:

Minutes:  Approved from the April 17, 2009 meeting

Update on the Curriculum Committee by John:

• A statement of purpose and procedures was approved.
• A series of continuing education classes was approved.
• It is not yet known whether the new classes can be used as college credit.
• From now on, we will each be sent the Curriculum Committee meeting minutes.

John’s thoughts:

• We can start with a clean slate.
• We are at a disadvantage because we have no institutional goals or a vision yet.
• We will start with the goals of the individual programs and add the institutional goals at a later date.

Prototype of Tom’s department sent to the committee by Greg Goode:

• Tom disagrees with the 2.5 average on competencies.  He would like it to be 2.0.
• Everyone on the committee thought that this was a good model.
• Janet moved that we adopt this form, Jeramie seconded it, and the motion was carried.

The next move:

• Tom agreed to work on his assessment as a prototype.
• When all of the bugs are worked out, we will present the model to the faculty.

Note:  Barb said that all faculty will start on this at the same time, whether or not they have been through curriculum alignment.

• Each department instructor will create his own assessment using the standard model.
• Janet volunteered to set the form up on the computer.

Competencies:

• They should be computerized.  HLC wants everything on the computer.
• There should be a standardized form for every department to use.
• The number of competencies on the form needs to be limited.

Next Meeting:
Friday, May 1st, in the Dental Lab at 11:00