03/15/05 IEL TASK

IEL TASK FORCE MEETING NOTES 03/15/05

Present: Roxanne Beloit, Ellen Brown, Don Brunner, Toni Cummins, Karen Driscoll, Joe Dunlap, Marcus Jorgenson, Pat Lamb, Linda McDermott, Scott Morgan (chair), Joanne Murcar, Linda Powell (recorder), Pam Praeger, Jacque Rainer, Dixie Simmons, Colleen Straight, and Linda Uhden.

The meeting came to order at 2:00 p.m. in the Palouse Conference Room at SFCC.

Review of March 15, 2005 Meeting Notes: The IEL Task Force group reviewed the March 8, 2005 meeting notes. The notes were approved as presented.
IEL Report Process: Scott reviewed the IEL Report Process (handout) with the task force group. Once the report is completed, the IEL Task Force will meet with the Chancellor to submit and discuss the final report. The Chancellor will then conduct a Cabinet retreat to review the final IEL Report. The Cabinet retreat has been rescheduled from April 7 to April 26, 1:30-4:30 p.m. at SIRTI. Representatives of the task force volunteered to attend the Cabinet retreat to share their views and be available for questions. Task force representatives attending the retreat include:

Credit Instruction/A-6 Policy: Dixie Simmons, Joe Dunlap, Pam Praeger and Don Brunner

Student Services: Toni Cummins and Roxanne Beloit (Karen Driscoll can’t attend)

Business and Industry: Joanne Murcar and Mike Mires

IEL Visibility/Identity: Colleen Straight

Statistics: Colleen Straight

All other (where needed): Scott Morgan and Linda McDermott

Cabinet members will then distribute the report to their respective campuses for review. The Chancellor will ask for input from the task force members, the Cabinet and the institutions. He will then present his report to the Board of Trustees. Linda McDermott recommended that Cabinet members receive and review the report prior to the Cabinet retreat.

3. IEL Report Review: In preparation for today’s meeting, Scott Morgan paraphrased report findings and recommendations (draft 4a) and displayed them on easel paper to provide an overview of previous discussions. Marcus Jorgensen suggested that recommendations the group has disagreement on be placed on a separate sheet titled "parking lot"--issues to discuss later. Scott suggested that issues where a consensus is not reached be identified and then the different points of views would be displayed.

The following sections of the IEL Report--Draft 4a were reviewed and discussed at length:

IEL Statistics: Colleen Straight distributed and explained a handout on IEL Statistics which will replace the existing language in the IEL Background section of the report [Draft 4a]. Discussion followed and revisions were identified.
IEL Visibility/Identity: Recommendations and findings were reviewed and revisions were identified.
Student Services: Recommendations and findings were reviewed and revisions were identified.
Credit Instruction: Recommendations and findings were reviewed and revisions were identified except for finding and recommendation #8 (Fairchild), which will be discussed at the next meeting.

Scott will incorporate recommended revisions in the next draft [Draft #5]. He will send Draft 5 out prior to the next meeting.

To simplify distribution and review of changes for Draft #5, Scott asked the task force group to send suggested revisions and additions to findings and recommendations to all task force members (reply to all) for review and evaluation.

The meeting adjourned at 4:50 p.m.

Next Meeting: The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Palouse Conference Room at SFCC.