Advisory Council for Comprehensive Academic Advising
Members Present: Matt Davis, Tom Fojtik, Mike Godfrey, David Jones, Dale Meinholz, Terry Olson, John Strous, Dana Vaughan, Pam Zachman. Recorder: Dana Vaughan
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AGENDA TOPIC |
DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
ACTIONS/FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS |
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Call to Order |
DV: Call to order 1:30 pm. |
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Minutes |
DV: March 2005 minutes approved as distributed by email. |
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Announcements |
ACCAA member Karen Fournier has resigned from the Council due to employment elsewhere. A replacement member from COLS will be sought. |
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Old Business |
Linda Amburgy of UARC, Chair of Faculty/Instructional Staff Advising Development Workgroup: Workgroup has been meeting since late Dec 2004. Presented executive summary (including handout) of draft plan for training program. She solicits suggestions about Faculty/Instructional Staff development needs, in particular what students need to hear about prior to transition to a Faculty/Instructional Staff member. Also working on list of things Faculty/Instructional Staff DON’T need to know!
DV: The 4nd and final draft of the Differential Tuition grant proposal was circulated by email earlier in the day. DV had presented it to the Provost’s Administrative Staff meeting on March 22, 2005. There it received general support from the PAS. It has now been submitted for consideration for funding. This proposal is to support Faculty/Instructional Staff Advisor training in addition to that conceived by the Workgroup (see previous item), in the first two years of the advising restructuring where the most Faculty/Instructional Staff education will be needed.
DV: Brian Ledwell has not responded to emails/calls about the new advising web pages; in particular, the CJ advising web page which was to be the model is not done yet (though DJ states they have not submitted all the required information) and there is just a month’s deadline for the Ledwell web team to receive all documentation from ALL Depts for their pages. To fill the void, DV gave a handout illustrating a simple advising web page that she created for Bio following the content recommendations set forth; this Bio advising page mock-up is now online as an example of what can be done by a Dept/Program; view this sample Dept advising web page at http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/biology/vaughan/BIOAdvisingIndexMockUp.htm
DV: Reported on her contacts with Depts/Programs regarding their advising restructuring. To date, has had intensive discussions with Med Tech and History; an inquiry from Journalism. Bio and Psych are done. Psych’s Transition Report is quite good and is used as a model on the ACCAA web page (criterion of 32 cr). Bio’s is also done (criterion of 3 freshman courses totaling 11 cr, see web page mentioned in above agenda item).
PZ: PZ explained the 4 different CON programs wherein academic advising occurs: traditional UG (2 x 70 students/year), College of Menomonie Nation (6-8 students/year), Accelerated (2 x 25 students per year), CNP (BSN completion; number varies). PZ provided handout of DRAFT recommendations for CON’s implementation of TIM. CON Level Coordinators = designated Faculty/Instructional Staff Advisors, meaning that the FA will change year to year, with up to 1:70 ratio.
MG: COBA is about to have another meeting on advising restructuring; more later.
DV: SC had submitted a progress report on COEHS advising restructuring, but Sam Adams, who chairs the COEHS cmte charged with the advising restructuring, had spoken to DV earlier that day indicating Susan’s draft was already superseded and could be set aside until further changes are made. Thus there was no further discussion of this. |
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New Business |
DV: DV and LF will meet with Provost Earns before the next ACCAA meeting to discuss the progress of the campus transition to the TIM. The ACCAA needs clarification regarding the September 1, 2005 implementation; will the new advising structure commence with new freshmen and transfers, or be retroactive to all students? The consensus was that the former is more humane and would stand a better chance of success and support.
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DV will report on the time frame for Fr-So-Jr-Sr implementation of the TIM vis-à-vis Sept 2005 |
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Adjournment / Items for Next Agenda |
Meeting adjourned at 3:00 pm. Items for next meeting:
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Next meeting: Fri May 6, 2005. |