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October 10, 2003

Those present: Iden Smith, Becky Telford, Brent Adkins, Nancy Cooper, Mona Walters, Amanda Swigert, Maggie Myers, Keith Kamerer, Kenneth Yowell, Jane Salisbury

Those Absent: Dennis Myers, Bill Waxman

Guests: Terri Jacomet

1. President Yowell called the meeting to order. The agenda was approved without addition.

2. The minutes were approved as distributed.

3. Status of Performance Teams:

• The Work Study Process Team has completed its work, and a standing committee led by Kathleen O’Brien will continue to monitor the various employment and training issue related to work study employees. The final item of concern for the original process team is the request to have President Yowell and the Board review the current pay/rate schedule for work study positions. Dr. Yowell indicated this would be done.

• Distance Learning Team members met for their fall update/review meeting. From that meeting came a compilation document prepared by Ann Miller. Ann drew information from Original Guidelines for Distance Learning Instructors (Aust-Keefer, 11-2000), ITS—Online Course Support CQI Committee (1-2001), Online Academic Design Team (1-2001), AQIP 1 Team recommendations (6-2003), and Frequently Asked Questions (Miller, Fall 2002). Each of these documents has been reviewed by the CQI Steering Committee and said materials posted. MaryBeth Aust-Keefer, Brad Reed, and the CQI Distance Learning Team members contributed to the final writing. Nancy Cooper will prepare a final edited document.

Kathy Clifton will lead a sub-team of this group to review and make
recommendations on video-class presentation formats. Her sub-team
includes: Cecelia Green, Lisa Alread, Janice Michael, David Barth,
and Maggie Myers. Their report is expected early in 2004.

• Academic Deficiency Team: Scheduled to meet October 23, 2003.

• Purchasing Team and Grades Not Submitted Team: Waiting to meet until Datatel capability compatible with specific team needs.

Those faculty reported in the fall to have not completed the grade
submission process as outlined by President Yowell still have not done so.

Dr. Yowell will address this issue with supervising deans.

4. New Team Requests:

• Book Adoption Team: A request was made for a team to look at our current book adoption process including timelines, various offices involved in the process, accountability issues, etc. After discussion this request was put on hold for Dr. Yowell’s review.

5. AQIP:

• Iden Smith reported on the Helping Students Learn Team initiative. He indicated the team would be monitoring student success in view of the newly required training for students taking online classes, and for faculty teaching online classes. The team has taken a student member, Susan Brunswick. This team continues to meet regularly.

• Terri Jacomet discussed initiatives of Valuing People. She highlighted the reincarnation of the Who’s Who, giving special credit to Carol Rigola for her work in merging multiple documents into one and posting it to the Public Folders. Team 4 is studying other colleges and universities also looking at their valuing people processes.

• Dr. Yowell shared the Leadership Qualities document the AQIP 5 team had developed. This document was the result of several months of reading organizational theory materials and is to be forwarded to the Servant Leadership group for incorporation into their leadership curriculum.

Jane Salisbury related information on continuing training, a January
survey for communication needs, and a second Transformational survey
during second semester. The first Transformational survey was given
during Fall, 2000.

6. CQIN:

• Forty-six faculty and staff are participating in the online faculty training process. Module 1 will be held open until October 24, after which it will no longer be available. Module 2 was opened October 10, and will span the next four weeks.

• Dr. Yowell indicated the CQIN team is researching criteria and design structures for online degrees. Currently, two or three degree options are being considered for implementation in the fall.

• Engineered Experiences Retreats will be held this year for all full-time faculty and those administrators not participating last year. All adjunct faculty will be invited to attend. The first retreat is November 7, and those disciplines participating will be Business, Human Services, Accounting, Biology, Marketing, OSA, Real Estate, Anatomy and Physiology, and HR.

• Dr Yowell hosted a lunch for DCC staff October 9. His first Breakfast with the President for main campus will be October 14.

7. Other:

• Balanced Scorecard training will be held December 9 and 10 off-campus. Dave Oehler from Northwest Missouri State will present on behalf of the Datatel Center for Excellence.

• Next Meeting: November 14, 2003
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