Self-Study Criterion
Team Process Notes
Process Summary of Progress
Criterion Three Team
Criterion Three Process Notes-
Spring/Summer 2003
Marianne Roccoforte
and Jan Downey were selected
to co-chair the Criterion 3 Self-Study sub-committee. Both co-chairs
attended weekly Steering Committee meetings to establish the
timeline and process for the next two years.
The co-chairs invited the following PVCC employees
to serve as members of the Criterion 3 sub-committee and assigned
pairs to serve as Core Component Specialists:
Mary Lou Mosley was appointed by the College as the Administrative
Liaison.
At the April President's Advance, the co-chairs
led break-out sessions of faculty, staff, and students, who
provided examples of PVCC programs which relate to the Criterion
3 statements of support.
The co-chairs used the feedback to help identify
resources, key employees, questions that needed to be answered,
and suggested documentation. They created worksheets for the
Core Component Specialists to use in collecting the data. The
co-chairs assigned team members with closest access to data
sources even when the content related to a component different
from their own. In retrospect, a more efficient and meaningful
way would have been for each of the Specialists to collect data
within their own Core Component.
Fall 2003
Throughout the fall, the co-chairs and sub-committee
met on a regular basis to report on their data gathering progress.
On October 31, 2003, the College held an open
forum for all employees to receive a report on the progress
to date and respond to perceived gaps, and suggest additional
examples of evidence . The co-chairs created handouts and a
feedback form for this purpose.
Spring/Summer 2004
Rick Vaughn met with all the co-chairs, individually,
to suggest an approach to crafting their chapter. Having collected
all the data from sub-committee members, the co-chairs met regularly
for extended periods of time to write the first draft.
Fall 2004
The Steering Committee continued to meet to make
decisions about the up-coming HLC visit, including: timeline,
graphics, layout, appendices, HLC Resource Room, communication
with the College campus and other constituencies.
Once completed, the report was made available
to the entire sub-committee for their feedback regarding clarification,
changes, updates, modifications, etc.
Each Criterion sub-committee met to design an
interactive information session for the Campus during Learning
Week on January 10, 2005.
