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Academic Advising
Assessment, fall 2008 meeting report
The
Committee on Academic Standing and Advising’s
assessment plan underwent a few major revisions. As a result we were late in submitting our
latest revised assessment plan. We have
had feedback but no final word that our plan is acceptable. We did not know if there would be money
available, and from which budget, for the ACT survey, which figures prominently
in our plan, and Dean Speaker responded via email that she had a small budget
for such expenses. We have not
administered the survey.
We
have taken some actions:
We
will do Goal 2, Objective 2.1, Outcome measure 2.1.1 for this semester by our
advisor training for new faculty today.
We plan another session of some kind for the faculty at large next
semester.
For
Goal 2, Objective 2.1, Outcome measure 2.1.2, Dean Koester has been sending
emails to faculty at least once a month about rules and policies, and Registrar
Leybold-Taylor has been very active with emails to faculty as we move forward
in the Jenzabar/Globe systems updating faculty about use of the Globe site as
instructors and advisors. Chair Gagnon has emailed faculty about the
mid-semester grade procedure (and ASA will bring a motion to the faculty to
change the Faculty Manual paragraph
about mid-semester grades).
Goal
3, Objective 3.1, Outcome Measure 3.1.3: The probation letters planned after
ASA action on academic standing of students in January will
include for first probation students the requirement that students meet with
their academic advisors and reference to available student supports and for
second probation students the requirement to meet with the Coordinator of
Learning Support Services as well.
Goal
4, Objective 4.2, Outcome measure 4.2.1 –
There have been several petitions from one major to waive the rule that
a student may count no more than 45 semester hours in one discipline toward the
120 required for the degree. Dean
Koester has sent an email to the members of that major and also included this
rule as one of her emails to faculty for Goal 2, Objective 2.1, Outcome measure
2.1.2.
Goal
4, Objective 4.2, Outcome measure 4.2.3: Such notification has been occurring.