April 23, 2018

UIEC Meeting 4/23/2018

The following members were in attendance: Jarrod Rosis, Daniel Bartlett, Rebecca Weinbaum, Diane Mason, Craig Escamilla, Sharlene Hatch, Kathy Roberts, Henry Venta, Jocelyn Robbins (guest), Carlotte Mizener, Joe Nordgren, Rick Carter, Theresa Heffner-Babb, and Terry Mena

Henry started off the meeting by introducing Jocelyn Robbins, director of the Center for Career and Professional Development.  She is here to talk about marketable skills and the conference she, Henry and Dr. Nordgren attended.

Henry and the UIEC have been talked to handle marketable skills by Dr. Marquart because they tie into the learning outcomes and institutional effectiveness.

It has been designated that every university in Texas will have a plan to implement marketable skills to their students as part of the 60x30 effort.

This process must be in place by 2020 and by 2030, 80% of students will be receiving a degree with some type of marketable skill from the university.

A lot of universities are currently using job postings to help with the language about marketable skills, ie, what exactly are jobs looking for and how are they conveying that to job prospects.

• Eventually Lamar could subscribe to databases as well.

Henry added that we need to make sure the students understand the skills they are receiving, we also need to work with those potential employers recruiting our students that they know our students have certain marketable skills.

Henry came up with a multi step list on how to shift from current assessment outcomes in WEAVE to those focused on marketable skills.

1. Determine where you are as a program or department
   1. Have every program engaged, some will have to do more work than others
2. Convert (not change) outcomes to marketable skills.
   1. Some are already doing things, such as critical thinking, leadership, teamwork, oral and written communication, etc.
   2. Need to include some sort of narrative as to why a program or department chose a particular set of marketable skills (Kathy mentioned making that part of the rationale statement in WEAVE).
   3. Jarrod included that we could also include a bullet point list of marketable skills in WEAVE as we do for the strategic plan and have them linked the outcomes.
   4. Terry mentioned we need to determined what LU as a university as whole values.
3. A. Complete Analysis
   1. Henry tied back to Terry’s the marketable skills LU values as “Cardinal Marketable Skills.”
4. B. Implement.
   1. When these are identified (cardinal marketable skills) you build them into your

Henry is stepping down as dean as of July 1, 2018 and stepping down as chair of UIEC as he does not know his long term plans after the 18-19 academic year.

A list of potential replacements has been presented to Dr. Marquart.

Due to Henry stepping down, a new chair for Section 7 of the reaffirmation report is needed, Theresa asked the committee for volunteers are recommendations.

Theresa briefly went over the news SACSCOC reaffirmation standards and changes from the previous standards and also mentioned that through the reaffirmation process, the UIEC needs to meet at least monthly.

Jarrod brought up moving WEAVE due dates from September 1 and October 1 to June 1 and July 1 starting in 2019, the committee agreed with the change so starting in 2019, WEAVE reports will be due June 1 and WEAVE plans will be due July 1.

Starting in fall 2018, an assessment review committee will be selected to help score WEAVE reports to ensure a broader scoring procedure on reports, instead of reports being scored by one person.

The UIEC needs to update the UIEC handbook as it has not been updated since 2008.

The meeting came to an end and no new meeting date was set.