4th meeting

Finally we have a full committee. I found our faculty member from a list of 3 that the Dean of Students gave me. The first one had already declined to participate. The second one declined in an e-mail to me. The third agreed. She has been a great addition so far. The student member was a little trickier. I guess a student had agreed by Monday, but I was not included in the e-mail communication. I got a hold of him by Wednesday but he was unable to attend the Thursday meeting. It looks like we will finally have everyone together at once for our 5th meeting on Tuesday.

The last three meetings have gone well even though we have not had the whole committee together. The second meeting was a tour of Student Conduct and the staff walked us through the process. Only 4 members were able to attend.

The third meeting, only 4 were able to attend again, and one had to leave early. We got through the entire Part 1: Mission though. It went very well.

The fourth meeting had five members, and we got through much of the Program section, which is the most complicated and time consuming section. However, we were missing the committee member from Student Conduct, so we were unable to get answers to all of our questions. The conversation was good, and the committee members are willing to share and contribute. We just need to pull a little from the student who came to the meeting. He seems nervous to share his opinion. It is tough that his first meeting besides the introduction meeting was for Program.

While I understand the need for various perspectives, I still am not convinced that we need 7 committee members. We have made great progress with 4 or 5. Maybe it would be different for a different office, such as one with several programs within the office.

2nd meeting

We finally had our second meeting. However, only 4 of the 7 showed up. One I knew wouldn't be there, but the others just weren't. I got a voicemail from one of the missing committee members saying she didn't know the location and would check her e-mail and meet us, but she didn't. I e-mailed all 3 who were not present asking to meet with them all at once out of consideration for my time. The student who was not able to make it at all said none of my proposed times worked for him with such short notice. I still have not heard from the other 2. I suspect I will replace the student with someone who can meet Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00am - 11:30am because the rest of the committee is available at those times. He seems to be a good choice for his opinions but he may be overcommitted.

committee finally

I now have 7 members, I think. The original Public Safety member is going to be on the committee, according to the second candidate. I still haven't heard from the original member though. I sent out an e-mail asking for everyone's schedules. I suspect I'll only hear from 3-4 of them by the end of the week. I hope to start meeting regularly next week.

frustration

I just found out that now one of the original committee members who dropped off the committee because she transferred campuses is now back on the committee. I've been e-mailing the proposed new committee member with no response. I called him, and he called me back saying he was looking for someone to serve. I told the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs about it, and she e-mailed the proposed new committee member. He then responded to her that the original member would be back on the committee. I still haven't heard from her. This is very frustrating. It's half way through February and we still haven't even finalized the committee. I want to get going!

one more

I still haven't been able to get a hold of my last committee member. Very frustrating.

progress 0

I haven't heard anything about new CAS team members.  I know we just made it through the first week of school, so everyone must have been pretty busy, but I'm anxious to get started.  I'm curious as to why the team must have 7 people, and why we can't proceed with just 5, especially because we had 2 students on the team, and now the one that dropped off isn't really even a student anymore.  I value the student's perspective, but I think it would be just as valuable to have one student and a smaller committee.

updates

Things are getting a little frustrating. This week I had two committee members contact me to tell me they had to resign from the committee because of other work commitments. I'm a little frustrated that it took this long to tell me. Now I have to collect their materials and wait for the Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs to find two new committee members. I was hoping to start meeting next week, but it's less than a week away and we don't even know those team members, that is looking unlikely. I am anxious to get started.

Some Work

I started the rest of my project for this competency. I am going to read an assessment done by Maureen of another university. I am also going to do a mini assessment of both my office and the recreation office at another university. I have cooperation of everyone involved so far but Maureen is still gaining permission of the university she reviewed.

I have already run into a few issues in that offices like mine have multiple programs, so it is difficult to decide how to rate the Program and Leadership areas. Do I include just an average of each program? The best? The worst? Which leaders do I assess? The director? The program area supervisors?

Because it is a self assessment guide, I feel it is probably up to each office to decide what they want assessed. I will most likely look at each program area and leader.

I now have a binder organizing all of the documents I am collecting.

getting the committe together

I e-mailed the group three times between our first meeting in November and the first week back in January. I have only heard back from half of the group, and it's getting frustrating. The responses are not answering the question of when they are not available to meet either.

Already, my recommendation for this process is to have a smaller group because seven seems like an unnecessarily large group to coordinate schedules just to have a few more opinions. I think the group should be a group of four or five individuals who understand the time commitment ahead of time.