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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.