Tabled by FS until fall 4/27/10                       Assessment Steering Committee Meeting      FS042710 2.f.
Minutes	Wednesday, April 7, 2010	11:00–11:50 AMC- Granite Room
Type of meeting	Assessment Steering Committee
Facilitator	Jim Sherohman, University Assessment Director
Note taker	Holly Evers
Attendees	HCOB:  Carol Gaumnitz                           Cont. Studies:  Vacant COE:   Frances Kayona                           Academic Affairs: Mitch Rubinstein COFAH: Gloria Melgarejo                        Undergraduate Studies: Amos Olagunju COSE:  Maria Womack                            Graduate Studies:  Melanie Guentzel COSS: Joe Melcher                                 Student L&D: Jim Knutson-Kolodzne LRTS:  Chris Inkster                                 Institutional Research: Kim Oren Gen Ed:  Vacant                                       Student: Vacant Guest:                                                      CETL: Lalita Subrahmanyan
	Approval of Minutes of march 3, 2010
	Motion to approve minutes- Lalita Subrahmanyan Second- Maria Womack Motion passes with one abstention.
	Approval of Minutes of March 24, 2010
	Motion to approve minutes- Chris Inkster Second- Frances Kayona Motion passes with two abstentions.
	CHAIR’S REPORT Jim Sherohman reported the following: · He will be meeting with the Provost and Lisa Foss tomorrow to discuss the position of Assessment Director and how the reorganization of Academic Affairs will affect the position. · Next week is a meeting of the college assessment directors. We will discuss the assessment report forms for the 2010 academic year. Someone from the Teacher Preparedness Initiative in the College of Education will be speaking during the first twenty minutes of the meeting on April 21^st. · An Assessment Peer Consultant retreat was held on March 26^th. 22 people attended. The retreat format seems to be working well and will, hopefully, be continued next year. Two decisions came out of the meeting: o The group would like to offer training on conducting focus groups to interested assessment peer consultants. Those trained would be available to provide focus group services to departments and units as part of the Assessment Peer Consulting Program. o The group would like to create a menu of assessment workshops and make them available for departments and units. An interest survey of potential topics is planned. · The survey of Assessment Peer Consultants will close tomorrow. Dr. Sherohman will be sending out a summary of the results next week.
	OTHER REPORTS Joe Melcher reported that the liberal education assessment plan has not passed the General Education committee, yet. The plan has been tabled while the committee concentrates on pressing matters with imminent deadlines.
	COMMITTEE BUSINESS
discuss	Position Paper The most recent draft was discussed by those present and a few changes were suggested. Jim Sherohman will incorporate the changes and post the draft for commentary.
motion	1. To approve the current draft of the position paper as amended- Joe Melcher. Second- Frances Kayona. Motion passes with one abstention 2. To disseminate the draft position paper for discussion and comments by the university community- Joe Melcher. Second- Maria Womack. Motion passes with one abstention.
discuss	Fall Convocation Proposals Those present discussed what to offer this August. Several possibilities were discussed. Jim Sherohman will contact potential facilitators and will make sure that at least three assessment sessions are proposed.
motion	n/a
discuss	Workshop Survey Chris Inkster, Joe Melcher and Gloria Melgarejo shared a draft of the interest survey for department chairs and program assessment coordinators about possible Assessment Peer Consultant workshop offerings. It was discussed by those present and several changes were suggested.
motion	n/a