Meeting Minutes

North Central Association
Accreditation Steering Committee Meeting
February 24, 2004
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Chapman 306

Attendees: Rita Cheng, Laura Pedrick, Tony Ciccone, Mark Harris, Bill Kritek, David Petering, Margo Anderson, Audrey Begun

Absent: Claudia Barreto

Update on data collection

Meeting opened with Rita giving an update on the data collection, preparation on data distribution, and the number of letters that went to Administrative Leadership. The majority of data are in for Administrative Leadership and Center.

Laura discussed how to access the accreditation data, how to do Report Submissions, and enter passwords. It was noted that some of the data is html and some PDF files. It is also suggested to put data in word version.

It is suggested to organize with table of contents, and use better label.

Reporting mechanism will be ready some time next week.

Questions: How good is the data we have?
Schools, etc. can go back in and change or clean up at any time.

Data Verification

How do we know the accuracy of data information? We should define the terms. There are data problems in the university, and working on correcting this problem.

Deans are being asked to review their reports.

Questions: How do we define acceptable errors of data?
We don’t have feedback groups. We need to pick data needed for report. We need to get good summary data on students.

Calendar

Rita commented on the new time of the meetings. It is agreed that the new time is fine.

Rita needs availability of everyone to schedule individual team member meetings.

Timelines

Think about timeline for the report draft. The draft is due June 1st. After reports are done, Rita will write external report for NCA. Team reports are intended for internal audiences. The campus as a whole will see the report by next fall.

Events

1. A reminder of the March 12 assessment workshop.
2. Also, the NCA meeting in Chicago. Please let Rita know if you plan to attend.
3. Also, in Madison on April 8th, the system is putting together a statewide program review and student assessment. Ton Ciccone will be attending.

Next Meeting

March 16, 8:30-10:00, Chapman Hall, 306.
We will discuss cross-cutting teams, report formats, data issues, and using different types of documents.