Minutes for July 21, 2005 -- Missouri State HLC Self-Study Steering Committee

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2005 HLC Self-Study Steering Committee
Review of July 21, 2005 Meeting

Members present: John Catau, Bill Cheek, Tom Dicke, Sue George, Martha Kirker, Etta Madden, Vic Matthews, Pete Richardson, Roger Sell, Don Simpson, and GA Linda Rogers.

The steering committee met at 9:00 a.m., Thursday, July 21st at the ADC Office.

New Business

Bill will be making a report to the Board of Governors as to the status of the self-study. He will be able to tell board members that the draft is completed and ready to go online, that the report reflects the fact that we have found a strong institution, and that our recommendations are of the "continue the direction we are going" variety.

Old Business

It was announced that UPAC will not be approving the long-range plan in September, but rather it will probably not happen until December. This will need to be reflected in the self-study. Sue reported on the UPAC recommendations, and the committee discussed some possible rewrites. Bill will write the cover letter to send out with the recommendations.

Etta reported that a complete draft has been sent to all committee members. There is some information still missing and that is noted in red in the report. Anyone who can help fill in the blanks is asked to send the information to Etta.

Options were discussed for organizing strengths/challenges/recommendations in the self-study. It was decided to have lists at the end of each chapter, then include an overall, topical summary list at the end of the report.

Among items discussed for recommendation:

	For the section on graduate programs – there should be more emphasis placed on expansion of doctorate degrees and professional accreditation. These programs are coming and need to be planned for.
	In discussions of salaries, the staff salary issue needs to be pulled out of a generalize "faculty and staff" grouping in order to highlight the needs of staff more specifically.
	In the area of the public affairs mission, there is a possible disagreement between the Diamond report and the self-study reports. Discussion followed concerning this. It can be seen as both a challenge and a strength – it is a strength of the institution that it is willing to look at ways to better reinforce and support the public affairs mission on campus. The challenge comes in helping people understand how to apply the mission, how to carry it out in day-to-day life, how to present it in the classroom. While "developing educated persons" is an admirable goal, it is not distinct from any other institution; the emphasis on public affairs and citizenship sets Missouri State apart and that is what needs to be stressed. The fact that varying views exist towards the public affairs part of the mission is understandable and needs to be reflected in the self-study.
	The diversity material that is currently on the Web site needs to be clarified and made more consistent and more accurate with regards to terminologies.

The complete draft is available for the committee to review and make comments upon. Bill asked members to keep three main questions in mind as they read the draft:

	Do we cover the Core Components?
	Are we evaluative enough?
	Are we tying recent progress to future plans?

There will be no meeting of the committee next week. The next meeting will be on August 4, 9:00 a.m. in the ADC.

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