EMU | COE Data and Assessment Committee Minutes 4_17

COE Data and Assessment Advisory Committee

Minutes

April 17, 2003

Members of the COE Data and Assessment Advisory Committee,

Thanks for your attendance at our first meeting (April 17, 2003). Although there are no official minutes (I’ll make sure that there are in the future), I’m providing you with my short version of what we covered.

1. Jim Berry and I made the points that:

a. “data-rich” accreditation is here,

b. an EMU super-database, the “Data Warehouse”, is being developed,

c. organizations can do a better job if everyone has easy access to relevant data,

d. those realities inevitably offer unique opportunities and challenges, so we in the COE might as well be proactive about things.

2. This committee can help shape how the Data Warehouse will play out in the COE. We can make it work to our advantage (esp. in the area of accreditation), and and we can serve as watchdogs. The goal is to make the COE the EMU leader in intelligent, thoughtful, and responsible use of the Data Warehouse.

3. All of that suggests that we should establish a strong relationship with the Data Warehouse people; esp. Mark Byrd. With that in mind, he will be invited to our next meeting to educate us about the Warehouse.

I hope all of you will be willing to serve through the 2003-04 school academic year, with meeting attendance a priority. After the first year, we’ll reconnoiter. I’ll ask Russ Olwell and Peggy Ligget (from Arts and Sciences) to serve and attend meetings as they are willing and able.

I’ll be asking Georgea Langer to become a regular member of the committee. Per suggestions, we’ll ask someone connected with student teaching to join us too.

We agreed to meet again on Monday, May 12, 2003 in the 206 Porter conference room, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Even better morning treats are promised. That will likely be our last meeting until fall.

Colleagues, I admit that we now “see through a glass, darkly.” Still, I think that all of us have spotted the same radar blips, and I am appreciative of your willingness to try to make sense of it all.

Nelson Maylone