August 25, 2017

Meeting was called to order at 11:02

The minutes were approved by acclimation

Committee chair, Ted Mahavier (5 minutes):

• Updates to committees
  • Faculty-Student Messaging is not called Faculty Engagement which will focus on the faculty. This committee will stay in sync with Marketing, Recruitment and Financial Aid as they are focusing on student messaging.
  • Old committee- Scheduling is now taken away
  • New Committee- Outreach
    • PJ Couch will chair and work with recruitment to plan and coordinate

Summer Bridge Program, Judi Mann (6 minutes):

• Coordinated efforts with Ashley Boone
  • Initiated testing of students for future programing
• PJ provided updates
  • Some challenges but mostly satisfied
  • Pace of program will be discussed
  • Positive feedback from students
  • Incorporate social events
• Ted requested a 1 page synopsis for future plans and will inform large committee at next meeting
• Judi will get assessment put together for review

Data Analysis Committee, Alberto Marquez (6 minutes):

• Reporting and Reaching out to departments
  • Create dashboard to contain overview on success of faculty
    • Include skills and strengths of student body for long-term results
  • Will need assistance from chairs to identify issues with students and faculty
    • Dig into why our students leave
    • Student employability is not promoted through faculty. We need faculty to discuss career opportunities with students in order to push success
    • Share the vision campus wide

MRFA, Deidra (8 minutes):

• By Fall 2019, subcommittee would like to propose that the admission standards are updated to raise the bottom floor
  • Subsequently we would need to build a “gateway” or bridge program to substitute the loss of revenue
  • Sent data over to Ted and he will discuss with Provost
• Plans to discuss campus wide marketing campaign with subcommittee

Faculty Engagement, Jackie Vallin (8 minutes):

• CTLE support and messaging
  • Focus on messaging to faculty that aligns with where we want students to focus
• Provost Kick-off
  • Attendance was great
  • Mentoring session was well attended
  • Messaging needs to be at this event in the future
• Jackie will serve as Director of 1^st year Math Experience
  • Examine messaging for evaluative testing. Market it and make it bold so that students know they need to do it.

Outreach, PJ Couch (6 minutes):

• Charge
  • Encourage faculty to reach out to local schools. Activities that are engaging such as high school challenges and competitions.
  • Focus on subjects outside of curriculum
  • Make students aware that college is something to consider
  • Work with Community Colleges as well

SSC, Kayla Holloway (11 minutes):

• Communication and SSC
  • SSC will assist in increasing communication to current students
  • System is role based, everyone can have different access based on your level of involvement with students
• Go live will be September 12^th to advising center
  • All other roll outs will be in phases
    • Engineering and Fine Arts will be next
  • Degree Audit discussion
    • Group expressed interest in learning more about the functionality of Degree Audit
    • Online degree audits vary by area
    • Need to streamline process and get faculty trained

Closing: Committee Chair, Ted Mahavier (9 minutes):

• Full committee will be super important to share our common vision
  • Meeting will be called for a time block of 2 hours
  • Each Subcommittee Chair will have a 5 min. presentation
  • Make sure to leave enough time for discussion

Adjournment at approximately 12:00, with the expectation of a subcommittee chairs meeting in October and a full committee meeting to follow.