Those present:
Larry Dragosavac, Bill Waxman, Amanda Swigert, Sharon Brown, Maggie Myers,
Jeff Collett, Jane Salisbury
Those Absent:
Brent Adkins, Darrel Isaacs, Iden Smith, Becky Telford, President Yowell
Guest: Ann
Miller
- The meeting was
called to order by Jane Salisbury, with the first order of business
being to introduce Sharon Brown as a new member. Darrell Isaacs will be
joining the committee and supporting the financial perspective of the
College.
- The agenda was
accepted without addition. Minutes were accepted as distributed.
- Status of
Performance Teams:
Jane Salisbury
reported that these active teams had met since the last CQI Steering
Committee meeting:
Academic Deficiency
ITS Customer Service
On-Line Design
Purchasing
E-mail/Electronic Accounts
Distance Learning
Weight Room
Retirement
Meeting in February and March are:
Event Planning
Orientation
Weight Room
Student E-Mail/Electronic Access
Retirement
- It was
explained that the Distance Learning Team would have changing
responsibilities once the current Action Project 1, Helping Students
Learn, was completed in May. At that time the monitoring of online
courses will be directed to the Distance Learning Team.
- New Team
Requests:
Dan Reke requested a team be selected
to review processes related to the issuing of parking stickers, how they
are displayed, how infractions are monitored and reimbursed, handicap and
visitor issues, and general security associated with Edison parking. The
following people will be asked to serve on this team: Dan Reke, Brent
Adkins or designee, Jeanette Newell, Dick Bollenbacher, Randi Wheaton, a
student selected from the Ambassadors, and a representative from Key II
Security. Jane Salisbury will facilitate the process.
Sandy Brubaker requested the
Hiring/Transfer Team review and publish a specific statement
indicating how departmental promotions are to be managed and announced.
At this time, those expectations are outlined in the team’s minutes but
not published in the CQI Process Manual. That will be done.
- AQIP
Ann Miller reported on behalf of
AQIP 1 at the request of Iden Smith. She shared data that had been
compiled from the fall semester and already distributed to the President,
Phil Lootens, and Academic Deans. Those results supported student success
rates to be approximately the same in online course during the fall of
2004 as they were for the year 2003-2004. Webflex classes showed a
success rate that dropped from 91% during 2003-2004 to 83.43% during the
fall semester 2004. The change in success is not explainable at this
point and is being further investigated.
Terri Jacomet sent a written
report indicating return rate for the second Valuing People, AQIP 4,
survey. She indicated returns were higher among classified and faculty;
they were lower among administrators. Statistical and regression analyses
are currently be conducted on the data. That team is reviewing its work
and trying to determine what recommendations will be made for continuing
work after the Action Project has ended in June.
Jane
Salisbury spoke of the Baldrige surveys that had been distributed to
all employees. Data is being tabulated and will be reported to the AQIP 5
team and then placed on the college dashboard as one of the indicators of
employee satisfaction. A second survey is to be distributed late February
to line leadership so a comparison of leadership perception of what
supervisees believes and supervisee perception of continuous quality
improvement activities can be determined.
- CQIN
The CQIN initiative of 2003
was the Online Degree Cohort within the OSA discipline. The cohort has
remained strong and those faculty participating in the program have had
few problems. Problems that have been noted have been addressed. The
program will continue into its second year and a second cohort will be
started in Fall 2005. At this time, 63 potential students are being
cultivated.
The Learning System Model from the
2004 team has been turned over to the Dean’s Council and posted in the
Public Folders. Sharon Brown, a 2004 team member, has agreed to present
the iterative document to the Dean’s Council and support its inclusion, at
least partially, into the Faculty Handbook for distribution in the fall.
It is hoped the Dean’s will cultivate further development of the
document.
- Other
Discussion:
The question was raised as to the
working function of the CQI Steering Committee. Jane Salisbury reported
that since the inception of the committee five years ago, there have been
many changes in the Edison’s CQI processes, including the frequency of
meetings of the CQI Steering Committee. Many decisions are now made “in
the moment” so that stakeholders do not need to wait for several weeks to
pursue better ways of doing things or to begin new initiatives. She
suggested that there may be a need to review the intent and format of the
committee, but deferred discussion until more of the committee members
were present, including the Committee chair, Dr. Yowell.
- Next
Meeting: April 15, 2005
Board
Room
1:30 –
3:00