Minutes of our Meetings

• LSS Division meetings will start on time
  
• Time will be spent in these meetings for more dialogue, less monologue and provide more community building
  

• Commons updates (2 handouts)
  
• Women’s soccer players are awesome! Good students, good study hall participation
  
• Second week of October will be Career Week, Career Fair 10/12 evening (will have 50 employers here)
  
• Deadlines for PEAK applications; have 22 applicants; some still trickling in => looking for PEAK advisor (iGoal, expose to resources, guidance re: opportunities to get involved in on campus)
  
• 10/7-13 national Tutor Appreciation Week; LSC will celebrate
  

• Director of Advising recommendation sent to District
  
• Search in process for Dean IT => interim structure for technology services shared
  
• ACE/SUCCEED Coordinator position open; will advertise in a week
  
• Student Leadership Program Specialist; one candidate moved forward
  

• Carol Myers take responsibility as CIT lead
  
• CIT meeting first Friday of the month; project is ramped up => database to start mapping training mid-late Nov
  
• Website updated; project status, project plan (dashboard) http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/nss
  
• Mid Oct marked increase in staff time in project assessing, testing, etc.
  

• Assessment plans due WED 9/27
  
• Oct 13, 1:30-3:30, out of class assessment workshop (not optional)
  
• 2-4 areas have been targeted for gen ed assessment
  
• Exploring the use of a standardized measurement or instrument for all to share (i.e., iGoal)
  

• Fund 1 managers => college going through adjustment to match budgets with actual revenue
  
• Flat enrollment amount OYO $ less than expected
  
• Strategy is to reduce all APB requests 30% and Fund 1 by 10%
  
• Will meet with managers individually => cuts will be reinstated next year
  
• Fund 2 to augment Fund 1 as last resort
  

• Under-prepared student advisory committee => mandatory orientation, assessment, advising to help increase student success
  
• Step-by-step overview
  
• Skip Downing will training faculty in COl101 (3-day course) (Oct 5-7)
  
• Look how to integrate into new SIS system
  
• Pilot/dry run of orientation
  
• Student Success Scholarships to help cover 1.0 cr. class (for student who are eligible for financial aid)
  
• Challenge to do this in an artful way, same amount of time but richer
  
• Group advisement will also be challenge
  

• Have provided a number of staff/class trainings; 600 students, many faculty using
  
• Continuous improvement => send suggestions
  
• Can ticklers/suggestions be input? => put in new student portal; listserve from IA => work suggestion into plans when working one-on-one with students
  
• If don’t know where they’re going, won’t be successful => continuously strive to incorporate goals into all aspects of life at PVCC
  
• Follow-up very important to help students establish good goals
  

• Spend more time having conversations on how to be more focused as a division
  
• Think about 1-2 targets that you can set now that can benchmark against by June 30; 1-2 areas different/better by June 30
  
• iGoal => qualitative/quantitative outcomes
  
• Where do we want to be vs. where we’ve been
  
• Use iGoal, list Paul as email contact
  

• Assessment Report by Wed (9/27)
  
• One seminal goal for area sent to Paul in iGoal by Friday (9/29)