Minutes: NCA Accreditation Team 5—Engagement & Service

Date: November 21, 2003

Another very productive meeting!

1. Announcements included:

-The entire package of requests for data was rejected by the Steering Committee earlier this week. Following the group's suggestions, the request form from our team has been revised and submitted. It is hoped that this simplified form (mostly yes/no items with blanks to identify key contact persons) will go out to Deans/Directors during the first week of December. Hopefully, we will begin to obtain data early in January?

-Audrey has revised the draft of the overall Team Introduction, also in keeping with the discussion at the Steering Committee. She will keep everyone updated concerning responses and reactions.

-Each team member needs to complete a scheduling form for the Spring semester. Audrey needs to know what days/times people are NOT regularly available so that we can set up meeting times that fit with most schedules.

-Margo Anderson from Team 1 Mission & Integrity will join us at our next meeting. We are attempting to get Dave Petering from Team 4 Acquisition of Knowledge to an early Spring meeting. This is because our teams' tasks overlap considerably. Audrey circulated a 2 page copy of information about Mission that is on the website from team 1 in preparation for our next meeting.

2. Work Accomplished:

-David Mulroy shared the draft of 5C so far. It includes an extensive list of ways in which UWM demonstrates responsiveness to a number of constituencies. The list of relevant constituencies is at the end of the report. We listed a number of additional items to include, and set David's team the assignment of doing a parallel job regarding ways in which UWM demonstrates responsiveness to student constituencies. David is also going to send the current draft electronically to Audrey.

- Ann Hains shared several questions from her team (5A) and got ideas and answers.

-Laurie Marks took assignments for her team (5B) to prepare for the next meeting.

-We did not get to the tasks assigned to team 5D, but Joan and Sam are going to get the team together to work on the next draft before our next meeting.

-Sam contributed the fact that a survey was done about 1 year ago concerning outreach offerings from all of the campus divisions. He also has included in the report a list of the contact persons for each, so we know who to contact for information concerning the processes they use for determining needs and developing responses. He will send to Audrey.

-Joan offered to work with Sam on developing a community partners survey. We should have a draft to discuss at our next meeting.

-We discussed mechanisms/processes for the campus to develop to centralize the gathering and analysis of information concerning engagement, service, partnerships, and so forth. This is one of the desired outcomes of the self-study: recommendations concerning these mechanisms, as well as come criteria for defining partnerships and for evaluating them (not just counting them).

Next meeting: Thursday December 11, 9-10:30 am Regents Room of Chapman Hall