Paradise Valley Community College
Self-Study Steering Committee Minutes
Reflecting Today . . . . . Creating Tomorrow
September 10, 2004 • 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Members Present: Sherry Adams, Judi Anderson, Jan Downey, Casey
Durandet, Jeanne Franco, David Gerkin, Jane Marks, Paul Marsh,
Marianne Roccaforte, Sally Rings, Rick Sheets, Rick Vaughn
Members Absent: Bob Bendotti, Ken Clarke
Summary
1. Report Layout – Rod Fensom
Rod visited the committee and shared his ideas for a cover and
design template. The cover will be full color and glossy, with
a picture of a group of students looking out from the corner
of M building on a gold background.
Chapters will be separated by divider tabs which
stick out from the main report pages. Each divider tab will
have a picture and perhaps a quote or callout of some kind along
with the title of the chapter.
The pages will have an indented margin, thus allowing
the reader a nice space to take notes and make comments. The
margin will also be used to accommodate pictures of students,
callouts or quotes, and tables or charts when necessary. The
page number is at the bottom, and we will add a header with
the chapter number and title.
Chris Hunt will be helping us with the graphic
design and page layout using Quark.
2. Report Status – Rick Vaughn
The study groups have met and were very helpful in resolving
the identified issues. The introduction and Response to Previous
Concerns are revised. Criterion One is almost finished, pending
the input from the Communication/Collaboration group. Criterion
Five has been revised and is complete. Criterion Three should
be complete once the revisions from Dean Bendotti are received
and merged with the suggestions from Marianne and Jan regarding
assessment and institutional effectiveness. Criterion Four has
promised to submit revisions to the chair by September 15th.
Criterion Two has pieces completed, but still has some work
to do before it is finished.
3. Resource Room Materials & Documents
In order to insert hyperlinks, it is necessary to go back through
the revised report and underline specific documents that are
referenced. After receiving the report chapter back from the
chair, each subcommittee should also review the report and sort
the supporting documents into those that provide important and
relevant support to the report findings and those that simply
provide additional details and peripheral support.
4. Call for Proposals – HLC Annual Meetings
2005 - All
Marianne, Sherry, Jan will meet and put together a proposal
fro a presentation summarizing our Self-Study process for the
2005 Annual Meetings of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
in Chicago on April 8-12. Any team members interested in attending
these annual meetings, please contact Rick V. We will make travel
arrangements in the Spring.
Next Meeting
Self-Study
Steering Committee Business Meeting
Friday, September 24th • 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. • Room
KSC-204.
