From: Philbin, Robert

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:41 PM

To: Carter, Karen; Cessar, Jocelyn; Falk, Monica; Grubb, Derek; Johnson, Shirley; Massarotti, Alicia; Philbin, Robert; Rasmussen, Genia; Scarlett, Thomas; Ulibarri, Debbie; Veltri, Sandy

Subject: Prog Assess Meeting

I met with the Valley Campus AISLC members (Shirley Johnson, Genia Rasmussen, and Tom Scarlett, ) as well as Donna Meyerholz last Wednesday (10/3) regarding program plans.  We discussed the the status page ( http://www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL/aps/status.htm ) and made corrections to it, including adding new programs such as Business Management.  We then reviewed the plans: Accounting, Computer Information Systems, Office Technologies, and Web Management. 

Several ideas came from the meeting which affect all programs:

1 - lets push to get faculty to think about using assessment data to project into the future.  I.e., think about what kind of student-learning data will very likely provide evidence for (strengthening an argument for) strategic initiatives.  For example, by careful constructing a CIS or OFT student-satisfaction-with-technology-survey, faculty in this area could better make a case for certain types of computer or software upgrades.

2 - I will to "Automated Assessment Management System" (the online form for submitting assessments at http://www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL/reports/asp/form.html - please feel free to suggest a better name for this).  Anyway, I will add to this some sort of indicator specifying that this assessment is a program-level assessment - thus helping the AISLC to judge to what extent the program plans are being implemented.

We will work on the Tdad Campus plans on October26 from 10am to 2pm (lunch will be provided).  I will be sending out additional details soon.

Robert Philbin

Professor of Physics/Math, www.trinidadstate.edu/mathsci

Assessment Coordinator, www.trinidadstate.edu/AISL

Trinidad State Junior College

Trinidad, CO 81082

719.846.5518