NCA Accreditation Team 5: Engagement & Service
Meeting Minutes: October 30, 2003

This was a very productive “working” meeting! After the following announcements, we broke into sub-teams and began working off of the DRAFT materials that Steve Percy and Audrey Begun provided. We also created a “data wish list” for distribution to Deans, Associate Deans, Program Chairs and Directors—the lists will be compiled across all NCA teams and submitted by Rita Cheng/Laura Pedrick. This approach is designed to keep from constantly nagging these administrators for information. It does not, however, mean that we do not have future opportunities to request additional information. (NOTE: If your team still has its wish list, please forward to A. Begun ASAP!!!)

Announcements:

1. Our next meeting (Fri., Nov. 21, 2-3:30 pm , Regents Room Chapman Hall) will also be a working meeting. Each subteam will bring 14 copies of its working draft for circulation to the other subteams (including Audrey and Steve). Each subteam will review the entire package for areas of overlap/omission and coordination. We will have each other to call upon as needed for clarification and/or discussion.

2. It is up to each subteam to figure out its own best mechanisms for working together. The blogs are available, but not everyone is comfortable using them.

3. Each team should remember to consult the earlier list of websites. Each team should feel free to add to their outline any additional subsections that they feel are necessary to adequately tell the UWM “story.”

4. We do not have to worry about length of our document. It will be a report, intact, available to the site visitors. The self-study report will use excerpts and elements (about 20-25 pages of our work) to direct the reviewers where to look in our larger report and in our documentation files.

5. We lost our community rep on the Team. As a solution, each team is to identify one or two of their own partners who would be willing to provide feedback throughout our process of self-study. These individuals will not need to be present at meetings, but we would like the sub-teams to share drafts with them and solicit their input.

The working sub-teams are as follows:

5A: UWM learns from the constituencies we serve and analyzes our capacity to serve their needs and expectations

Ann Hains (coordinator)
Mary Pick
Joan Smothers
Mark Krueger

5B: UWM has the capacity and the commitment to engage with our identified constituencies and communities

Jean Bell-Calvin (co-cordinator)
Ed Burgess (co-coordinator)
Laurie Marks (willing to be a coordinator)
Enrique Figueroa

5C: UWM demonstrates responsiveness to those constituencies that depend on us for services

Mark Mone (coordinator)
David Mulroy
Kathy Peck

5D: Internal and external constituencies value the services UWM provides

Bill Maryl (coordinator for now)
Joan Prince
Marc Levine
Sam White

The working file was sent by e-mail from Steve Percy. Each subteam has additions from A. Begun.

We hope to have visits from the Mission Team and from the Knowledge Acquisition Team.

See you next time!