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2005 HLC Self-Study Steering Committee
Review of September 16, 2004 Meeting

Members present: Jim Baker, Barbara Bushman, John Catau, Thomas Dicke, Sue George, Tamera Jahnke, Martha Kirker, Lois Shufeldt, Pete Richardson, Roger Sell, Bill Cheek, and GA Linda Rogers

The steering committee met at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, September 16th at the ADC office.

In the absence of Bill Cheek, who joined the meeting later, John Catau called the meeting to order.

The AAA meeting will be held next Monday, September 20. Drs. Tammy Jahnke, Sue George, and John Prescott will make a panel presentation on ways to address HLC charges distributed to departments. As heads from varying departmental sizes, they will be offering their perspectives and approaches. This meeting is seen as a vitally important step towards a cooperative reception of the HLC charges by the departments and faculty.

It was suggested that the Public Dialogues be brought up at the AAA and a recommendation made for every department to send 1 or 2 representatives to the dialogues to help with completing that section of the charges.

New graphics were presented for inclusion in the final report. Suggestions were made for further "tweaking" and final samples will be presented next week.

Early feedback on the HLC presentations to the Faculty Senate and to CGEIP was positive. The questions appear to be well received.

Tom and Linda met with Sara Clark to review the HLC website. Sara will be able to post the charges on the site and make sorts available several ways. Interested parties may search by individual committee/department charges or they may sort by the individual charge to see which committees are answering it. Information that we need to obtain for the site includes an inventory of what supporting documentation we need to have available. Discussion followed concerning this and it was decided that:

It was suggested that we link the site to every department’s promotion & tenure guidelines, but many departments do not have that information online. For both the HLC and for any future agency reports, we should build the website with a database and resources that can be readily accessed and tailored to fit individual report requirements.

Jim gave a report on the last UPAC committee meeting at which Bill gave a presentation on the HLC. One major change that is being proposed for the long range plan is to add a 6th theme – the Human Dimension. The question was brought up as to whether diversity should have its own section under the LRP rather than being spread out throughout. The committee’s feeling was that it should be a separate section. UPAC hopes to take a draft of the LRP to the Board in April and have a final copy ready for the approval at the June meeting for implementation July 1st. Jim suggested it might be good to link the UPAC site with the HLC site. The next meeting of UPAC will be Oct. 11th.

Roger spoke on the ADC’s Annual Report for FY2004. The report addresses several questions about what we are doing to support faculty and to assure development opportunities are available to them. Data in the report will probably be referenced several times in the HLC report.

Bill reported that several of the charges have been sent out already. The departmental and college charges will go out on Monday, and the others will be out in the next week.

The next meeting of the committee will be on Thursday, September 23^rd.

Respectfully submitted,
Linda Rogers