AQIP Committees Edison Community College

CQI Steering
Committee

AQIP 5
January 13, 2004
Those present: President Yowell, Jane Salisbury, Pat Klopfenstein, Bill Waxman, Chip Hare, Patti Ross

Jane Salisbury called the meeting to order.

Jane Salisbury shared with the team the Action Project Update/Review document for the Action Project representing Leading and Communicating. She highlighted comments and explained her interpretation, from the worldview of another Action Project Reviewer. The overall review was positive and supportive of the steps already taken to enhance our organizational function, to promote leadership development, and to facilitate more meaningful communication throughout the campus. Two “flags” were raised in comments regarding the extent to which leadership development was being addressed and the changing of mindsets of positional leaders from a managerial to true leadership.

Discussion over items falling within the purview of the team ensued:

The revised Public Folders is much more user friendly than previous versions. Jane Salisbury will ask Carol Rigola to relocate the in-house Telephone Directory to another location. Currently it is located under “Forms.”

Training Modules prepared by Carol Rigola and offered by ITS have not been in demand this fall semester. This may be a result of the Faculty Development Training which introduced Blackboard to 46 faculty and staff and the Adjunct Faculty Fair which served 50+ adjuncts in the Internet Café. Also, the Orientation Modules are requiring some training be addressed at various levels.

Orientation Modules were only partially successful this past semester. Of the 15 people in line for training, no one finished all the modules. Of special concern were those modules available only in a group setting—Modules 5, 7, and 8. President Yowell expressed his concern that some people seemed to not be taking the process seriously. He indicated not knowing the organization, its intent, and its processes was a distracter to success, as well as time consuming for those needing to have information and expecting others to provide that information on an “as needed” basis.

When the Orientation Process Team meets in January, Keith Kamerer will be asked to draft a memo to be sent to those who missed the various Modules and to their supervisors. It will stress the importance of the orientation process and indicate all modules must be completed this semester. Those not in compliance may be docked one day’s pay.

Closer monitoring of the process by the HR office and individual supervisors
will be strongly suggested.

Dr. Yowell will query the status of the Leadership Characteristics forwarded to the Servant Leadership group for incorporation into their leadership development curriculum.

Teams led by line administrators to afford discussion of college issues have not been called together. Nor have the teams addressing core value development met. Dr. Yowell will address this.

The Communication Survey scheduled for late fall/early spring semester
has been postponed since many of the communication initiatives have not
been initiated.

4. Next meeting will be scheduled late in spring semester.