Quality Leadership Team Meeting 

February 3, 2012  President’s Conference Room 

      Present: Velma Elizalde, Ruth Cude, Amador Ramirez, Susan Smedley, Bruce Exstrom, Claire Fletcher, Glynis Strause, Donna Atkins, Patti Candia.    

      Chair Elizalde called the meeting to order at 11:15 a.m. in the President’s Conference Room. 

      February 10, 2012 will be the kick-off of the QEP.  Fletcher will help with an online survey and Ramirez will also make a QEP webpage.  Focus groups with students and community will be used to complete the QEP using data to support the strategies, benchmarks, growth etc.   

      Ramirez reported that the new webpage has a form feature that we can use for surveys and feedbacks. 

      Marketing and Public Relations will be used to get the word about QEP and what we are doing the QEP and why we are doing it.  Smedley remarked that the marketing pieces need to be tailored to specific markets of the CBC communities.  This will include internal communication as well as news releases and media pieces to distribute.  Ideas were banners with QEP and the title of our project.  Branding for the QEP family of documents needs to be set up once the topic is known.   

      The QEP is $18,000 in the 2011-2012 budget. 

      Dr. Exstrom will be tying the QEP to faculty and getting their buy-in.  Donna Atkins will be the Liaison to the faculty and faculty senate.

    Elizalde reviewed the QEP PowerPoint that will be used for presentation to convocation on Feb. 10, 2012.   All employees will get a copy of the PowerPoint.  QLT will get a copy of the SACS compliance document.   Topics on the PowerPoint are listed below:  

1. Acronyms 
2. SACS   Patti will give the overview and impact of accreditation, timeline, on-site dates.  

Random Cluster Analysis – random sampling from different groups (Claire). 

3. QEP Basics: Student Learning Outcomes, Strategies, Measurability, Scalability. Core Requirement 2.12, [ requires, among other things, an institution to develop plan for increasing the effectiveness of some aspect of its educational program relating to student learning and /or the environment supporting student learning and accomplishing the mission of the institution]  

 3.3.2 [mandates that the institution demonstrate institutional capability for completion of the QEP, implementation of the QEP, and establish goals and assessment plan.  

4. What is QEP?  
5. What is Student Learning? 
6. Learning Outcomes should be > >  
7. Process Outcomes 
8. Learning Outcomes 
9. Model Samples 
10. How will we determine the QEP topic? 
11. QEP Topic Ideas  [ topics were reviewed, critical thinking deleted, digital literacy added] 
12. What Happens Next? 
13. What is the QLT? 
14. Current QLT Membership 
15. Afternoon Session Process 
16. QEP Questions 
17. Process Rules 
18. Strategies and Measurement 
19. Facilitators and Recorders 
20. CBC Mission 
21. CBC Vision 
22. Core Values 

      Questions for the survey were brainstormed.  We want this to be an electronic survey of the same questions asked at convocation.   We want the surveys to designate student, community, or employee input.  Put name as optional if we need to follow up to clarify.    Elizalde will propose a time to meet via e-mail so that all are available.  Fridays are preferable about 11 a.m.  to follow the SACS meetings.  Feb. 17th is the date of the next meeting and we will likely meet every other Friday.

     If we have ideas for agenda send them to Elizalde.  Topics = review the SACS criteria and timeline.   

      Meeting adjourned at 12:42 p.m.