Student Affairs Assessment Council
Minutes
May 8, 2013
Attendance: Rebecca Sanderson, Maureen Cochran, Remi Nagata, Jo Alexander, Melissa Yamamoto, Rick DeBellis,
Kami Hammerschmith, Carolyn Killefer, Ann Robinson, Ozge Akcali, Kent Sumner, Dave Craig, Pat Ketcham, Jodi
Nelson, Lucas Schalewski, Jennica Vincent, Marigold Holmes
A new Assessment Council member has joined us from The Women’s Center and CSSA program, Marigold Holmes.
Welcome, Marigold!
Annual Retreat
Update: Jessica White has been contacted to work with us at the retreat around curriculum development, student
learning theory and appropriate methodology. Will provide more information as it becomes available.
Assessment Reading & Conference
Luke Schalewski designed a 1-credit Assessment Reading & Conference course for CSSA students as a part of his
internship with Maureen Cochran. Students have shown a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm around the topic!
The Assessment Council is invited to attend the class presentations on various Student Affairs Assessment-related
topics. Students were asked to identify an area related to Student Affairs assessment to learn more about and present
to the class. Both classes are in Furman Hall, room 303 from 2:30-3:30pm.
May 21
May 28
Lea Griess: Strategies to Build and Sustain a
Culture of Evidence
Hilary Himan: Assessment in Student Activities:
Moving Beyond Satisfaction Measures
Marigold Holmes: Emerging Technology in
Student Affairs Assessment
Daniel Cardenas: Multicultural Student Affairs
Assessment: From the Ground Up
Hilary Hall: Measurement Tools for Study
Abroad Experiences
Whitney Jones & Adele Christensen:
Methodological approaches to Student Affairs
Assessment: Challenging the Survey
Director Position Search
During the on-campus interviews, there is an hour and a half scheduled for the Assessment Council to meet with each
candidate. The group has expressed interest in spending time at the next meeting discussing what questions they’d
like to ask during this time.
Initiative 6 Presentation
The charge for Strategic Planning Initiative 6 is to build and sustain a culture of inquiry in the Student Affairs Division.
Members from the group shared information about where they have been and the direction in which they believe the
Division needs to go based upon research, standards, experience and the current landscape at OSU in terms of
operating within a culture of inquiry. The presentation is posted online along with the minutes. The following are
recorded comments and ideas that were brought up during the meeting.
 Ideas from the Marketing Proposal discussion:
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Could have a table at University Day; it was suggested that we could come up with an inquiry-related
theme to tie all of the Student Affairs units present at the event together to show “this is important to
us.”
o Will need to work with Communication and Marketing committees, there may be possibilities to team
up with whomever will be operating in the new Student Affairs Development position in the future.
o Utilize OSU Today.
o We could work this into the Student Affairs orientation.
Ideas from the Survey Environment Proposal discussion:
o We need to situate ourselves in a manner so that we have more control of the surveys environment,
including data sharing, within Student Affairs.
o More collaboration on survey research.
Ideas from the Celebration Proposal discussion:
o There are many ways in which we can elect to celebrate the culture of inquiry in the Division. The
Council expanded upon these ideas:
 Add a celebrative piece to a Division-Wide meeting or University Day
 Displays in the MU cases and elsewhere on campus (team with Marketing), OSU Today
 Regarding the idea to hold a mini conference:
 Bring in an outside speaker as a reward and a way to draw in more interest
 Select presentations to recommend that they submit to national conferences
Ideas from the Human Resources Proposal discussion:
o What do you need within your individual departments in terms of FTE allocation to assessment
efforts? FTE can be split up among several people (for example, 1.0 FTE could be .33 of 3 different
people’s position descriptions), or a full time and some part time staff, depending on the
department’s needs.
o When considering your department’s needs around assessment, how much FTE would it take to fulfill
your department’s assessment-related needs?
The Assessment Council has been invited to join initiative 6 in moving these priorities forward. More discussion and
action around this area will follow.
Next Meeting:
May 22, 2013
Student Health Services 322A
9-10:30am