From: Philbin, Robert
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:04 PM
To: Philbin, Robert; Blake, Patrick; Carter, Karen; Falk, Monica; Gonzales, Jeremy; Harris, Lige; Holdread, Doug; Holdread, Lori; Massarotti, Alicia; Meyerholz, Donna; Nelson, Patti; Rankin, Carol; Robert Ladd (laddy3569@aol.com); Scarlett, Thomas; Ulibarri, Debbie; Woods, RuthAnn
Cc: Gomez, Kendall
Subject: RE: Fall AISLC Mtg
Right, the Tdad meeting will take place in the Boyd Conference Room.  Kendall will let you all know which room on the Valley Campus.


From: Philbin, Robert
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:51 AM
To: Blake, Patrick; Carter, Karen; Falk, Monica; Gonzales, Jeremy; Harris, Lige; Holdread, Doug; Holdread, Lori; Massarotti, Alicia; Meyerholz, Donna; Nelson, Patti; Philbin, Robert; Rankin, Carol; Robert Ladd (laddy3569@aol.com); Scarlett, Thomas; Ulibarri, Debbie; Woods, RuthAnn
Subject: Fall AISLC Mtg

We will meet via PicTel on Thursday, October 6, 3:30 - 4:30:
 
Pre-meeting work:
1.    Please nominate one student member from each campus (Robert Ladd from Tdad Campus)
2.    Write an analysis of assessments from your area** and send via email to all by Wed 10/5.
3.    Read Bylaws and be prepared to amend / modify / or vote Yeh!
 
Agenda:
 
1.    Finalize membership - see email list plus nominations
 
2.    Assessment Cycle Closure
         Quote from Aug minutes
        "First, the task of closing the assessment cycle -  USING assessment  
         results (from faculty assessment reports)  for CHANGING 'things' (curricula, program, budget,  
         scheduling, staffing, physical plant, ...) needs to be our prime goal this year. "
    AND
        For last year's assessment results, all committee members will read the assessments in their area**
        and submit a summary analysis via email to the AISLC Chair in time for the next meeting, which will
        take place in mid to late September.  Philbin's reading has yielded the document located at
 
        How do we close the loop?  Fundamentally, we are, like all standing committees, a recommending
        committee to the president.  So, what have we to recommend?  Please bring specifics to meeting
        from your reading.
 
        ** Go to the assessment page and select the Reporting link (this will send you to
             www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL/reports/asp/form.html) - use the search by department and read the
            assessment reports in your department with an "analytic eye."  It would be best if you sent via
            email your analyses to all in this email list prior to the meeting.
 
3.    Program-level assessment (http://www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL/aps/status.htm)
        Quote from Aug minutes: 
     b. Some of the "Responsible Administrator" positions have changed, principally Mincic -> Blake.
        ACTION ITEM: Please review this matrix for:
                (i) cells with incorrect names
                (ii) e-mail the corrections to me so I can update the webpage - I fixed what I knew, but ...
                (iii) Send an email with the above link in it to those faculty reminding them of their program plans,
                    either to create (if status=0,1) or to implement (status=4,5)
        a - To what extent are existing plans being implemented?
        b - How do we get the remaining plans designed?
 
 
4.  Discussion of Bylaws in relation to Annual Review
 
The AISL Bylaws are accessible on the website by clicking on the AISL Committee link (at the bottom of the AISL homepage @ www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL) .  Read them and we'll vote on them at this meeting.  See discussion from last meeting below:
 
The AISLC Bylaws say (Article VI, section 2.3) that each  Fall the committee will meet for initial discussion of assessment results, each Winter for "final discussion of assessment results..." and each Spring the committee will meet to "Develop final recommendations to the President ... and review draft .. disseminated to faculty by the August in-service.".
 
Because this feedback structure does not really work - the feedback loop is way too slow to be effective - the decision was made that all AISLC members read the assessments at the end of each semester and submit summary analyses via email to the AISLC Chair in time that the committee can discuss needs and changes immediately after that semester.  For fall semester, that discussion will take place at the January in-service, for Spring semester, the discussion will take place at a special spring meeting immediately following finals week.  The readers will be the members of the AISLC, each reading assessment reports in their area.  Monica Falk moved to allow Philbin to modify the Bylaws and subsequently allow the committee to OK the changes, Debbie Ulibarri seconded and the motion carried unanimously.