Attendees: Rosemary B, Courtney C, Katie, Rosemary A, Katherine, Anand, Alan, Tim, Brad, Jason, Marcia, COurtney T, Steve T, Fred, Meagan, JoAnn, Christina

Alan review the program, products, and outcomes document he distributed earlier this week.

Agreed to remove the outcomes he suggested -- experiential learning and long term planning, after some discussion.

Curricular Programs.

Communication & IL Outcomes and some personal responsibility outcomes

Alan recommends take this out of the Curricular Programs Outcome B.3.i to Co-Curricular.

B1.ii, working on this someplace else

B3.ii -- out

Red sections -- push back to small groups Assessment strategies, need to go to small groups,

How do we measure all these things -- indirect (counts of students attending something) and direct measures, what levels do we want students to get to. 50% going to events? 75%?

Small groups will work from document

Co-Curricular Programs

Questions about use of Mermaid for degree evaluation. It's not a supported system and not synced with Banner, We may need to recommend that the university invest in the additional pieces that support this

Take out Mermaid, put in appropriate tools

Career Exploration, "MyPlan" is a product we already license,but license is going away. REplace this with appropriate tool, new software is better.

Alan will talk with Katie about details that are specific to MyPlan and make these generic,

Attendance -- university says attendance cannot be used toward grade

Attendance as part of assessment is something the small group working on this area should look at. It's a weak measure of engagement, lack of attendance is an indication of non-engagement

Maybe ask FSEM instructors to submit mid term grades, this avoids the problem of infringing on academic freedom,

Report for all first-year students -- how do we make this work Maybe ask faculty to put in S or U, broader issue that QEP, how do we work through to this, Fred will work on it, Supported by this group as best practice that supports retention and graduation

Outcomes B 1.ii, B3.iii,etc.

Are we agreed that we want students to do something in this Require they

OrgSync -- program that Student Affairs has purchased this, can be used to keep up with who goes to what, can be used to provide feedback to peer mentor, has capability of asking students to reflect

Required activities, or participate in X number of activities, Goal is that you participate in X number, OrgSync will provide data and tracking, could have incentives of some sort, this group should have some kind of

Agreement that undergraduate research is out of place

Tentative schedule for FYA +1 -- Alan adapted from MSU model, skeleton syllabus

Timeline (see AG's email re this)

Discussion of timeline

Yr 1 -- 25, Yr 2 -- 50, Yr 3 -- 70ish

Move most of the 13-14 into 12-13,

Continue to develop and refine online module suite

We will need a director of the QEP to be hired. When does this person get hired? Who is responsible for implementation? Needs to be clarified.

Next steps:

Big writing task -- ask for volunteers to help Alan,

Processes to develop QEP: Alan

Lit review -- done

actions to be implemented

organizational structure -- will come from groups,

III: Nina

IV: Outcomes along with data used to support that, Marcia

V done

VI Actions to be implemented -- Rosemary A

VII timeline -- Alan

VIII Org Alan will draw from groups

IX Resources

X Assessment -- Courtney, Taiwo, Jason, Katie

Which units will be responsible for these activities To whom does lead report With whom must lead cooperate or collaborate

Curricular -- Anand, Rosemary, Gwen

Scheduling and Planning and other outcomes -- assessment writers

Have this by 2 weeks from now.

If you have ideas or suggestions send to Courtney's groups