Student Affairs Assessment Council Minutes
January 15, 2014
Attendance: Ozge Akcali, Jo Alexander, Richard Arquette, Daniel Cardenas, Maureen Cochran, Dave
Craig, Kami Hammerschmith, Jeff Kenney, Carolyn Killefer, Daniel Newhart, Melissa Yamamoto
Annual Report update
Daniel updated the group on his progress with developing a combined version of the 3 major annual
reports in Qualtrics.
Curriculum update
The Assessment Council provided excellent feedback on the curriculum draft that was put before them
at the previous meeting and Maureen and Daniel have a lot of work to do in terms of making
improvements to the tool.
Scholars Archive
Daniel and Maureen met with Rick Stoddart and Sue Kunda about the Scholars Archive, how it works,
and what type of content we are able to add to it. We will continue to have conversations around how
we can utilize this tool. Items that are added to the Scholars Archive then have a permanent link which is
searchable.
2014 Retreat Planning
Send dates that WILL NOT work for you in the month of June to Maureen.
For the past few years, we have held the retreat at the Adair Village; we experienced some troubles
there last year in terms of building accessibility. Maureen asked the group for other venue suggestions:
 Corvallis Depot
 Forestry Cabin-Peavy Lodge/Arboretum
 Boy Scout Lodge in Philomath
Student Worker Learning Outcomes
Daniel presented the idea of exploring this topic with SALT and there was a lot of energy around
exploring this as an assessment initiative. He also introduced the idea of using existing learning
management systems (Blackboard) as a way to centralize training. The central place for training modules
would speak to central student learning outcomes for Student Affairs and be linked to assessment
competence development.
Daniel asked the Council members present: Does looking at student worker learning outcomes interest
you all for a joint research project, which would feed into a proposal?
 A lot of enthusiasm, people like/love this idea!
 It would be great to compare that data across depts.
 Does HR already have great presentations like this?
 As of late, student leaders have doing informal assessment with the students they work with
 It might be difficult to get students to use blackboard for both work and school; would need to
be "enforced" by supervisor
 Could also be a central place for work forms (I9, FERPA), department-specific LOs, etc.
 We are Student Affairs educators, this may help reflect that.
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Blackboard is already connected to Banner
They already do something like this in the Library: of those who start working in the Library, how
many are retained? How many have graduated within 6 years?
Next steps:
 Come up with a research or assessment question and design
 Will seek confirmation from other assessment council members as well; we intend to not put
more on your plate, but to use our meeting time to make progress, breaking into subgroups if
needed, we'll try to keep most of the work in the meeting time.
 For the next meeting, Daniel will have a summary of articles of interest to this project
 This is envisioned as a 2-quarter project
 Present report back to SALT in “you asked, we answered” fashion
 We can consider writing about it for publication
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Daniel asked: For this project specifically, how do we feel about others joining the group? –no objections
were raised.
Next Meeting:
January 15, 2014
9:00 am-10:30 am
MU Council Room