March 19, 2007

3:00 p.m.
Hagen Hall 107

Present: Tim Borchers, chair; Ted Gracyk, Cassie Kramer, Jody Mattern, Amy Phillips,
Jean Sando

Absent: Peggy Rittenhouse, Stacy Voeller (sabbatical), Alison Wallace

Minutes: Gracyk moved and Phillips seconded to approve the February 19, 2007 minutes. The motion was approved unanimously.

Announcements: Borchers thanked everyone for their work over the past two years. Good ideas were given at the NCA Visit and the Mock Visit and will be incorporated into assessment next year. Discussion ensued on the visit and comments made by the evaluators.

Review of Plans/Reports

International Studies Plan:

• The plan is new and the outcomes being assessed this year are not checked.
• Suggest using stronger verbs for the first four outcomes. The outcomes could also be more specific.
• Which MSUM mission goals are addressed by the outcomes are not indicated.
• Suggest the rubrics be more specific.
• The actual assignments need to be provided.

Instructional Improvement Grants (IIG): Discussion ensued on whether grant applications that address improvement to courses not required in the major should be recommended for approval. SLOAC deals with degree majors and courses. Courses in Dragon Core should be part of Dragon Core assessment. Another issue is whether Instructional Improvement Grants are being viewed as a fund to supplement equipment budgets. It was agreed to review IIG parameters at the next meeting.

The following Instructional Improvement Grants were reviewed and recommended to Academic Affairs Council for funding:

• Athletic Training: Fund request of $7,488.50
• Communication Studies: Fund request of $4,962.13
• Economics: Fund request of $7,223.04 with stipulation that data from ECON 100 only be provided for students that are Economics major. Data on non-majors should not be included in the IIG report.
• Exercise Science: Fund request of $7,500.00 with stipulation that program must provide an assessment report and data on the cardiac exercise stress testing system.
• Chemistry: Fund request of $7,422.00
• Mathematics: Fund request of $7,103.90
• Philosophy: Fund request of $3,338.90
• School Psychology: Fund request of $5,953.00 with stipulation that funding is a pilot. If use of PDAs proves to be beneficial to student learning then students should be required to purchase their own PDAs. The PDAs purchased under the above funding could be checked out to students with financial hardship. Concern was expressed that upkeep of MSUM purchased PDAs would fall upon the Information Technology office and could be a personnel issue.

Next Meeting: April 2, 2007, at 3:00 p.m., in HA 107.

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