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LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL August 25, 2016 Minutes

Approved – September 8, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson

Present: April Cunningham, Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Hope Farquharson, Katy

Farrell, Jenny Fererro, Jack Kahn, Cheryl Kearse, Sara Krause, Susan Miller

Michael Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Dan Sourbeer, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Michelle Barton, Michael Deal, Tess Emminger, Michael Gilkey, Adrian

Gonzalez, John Harland, Brian Stockert, Anastasia Zavodny

Recorder: Marti Snyder

The meeting was called to order by Wendy Nelson at 2:42 p.m.

1. Approve Minutes 5/12/2016

MSC, Sourbeer, Kearse, to approve the minutes as presented. All in favor.

2. Introductions and Announcements

Michael Mufson announced the theater arts season for this year-long theme: Our Town,

Our Nation - Looking at the Evolving American Identity. Michael also announced the

upcoming play “Facing Our Truth – Six Ten-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race, and

Privilege. There will also be additional dialogue in regards to race and social justice in

our country. These plays will support the action from assessing the ILO – Intercultural

Competency and Knowledge. The workgroup that met over the summer will focus its

activities on creating a critical multicultural consciousness at Palomar College. Michael

has created a website to facilitate the play’s dialogue: PalomarCoffeeTalks.org.

Kelly Falcone announced that registration is open for the Active Learning Conference in

October.

Wendy Nelson announced that she and Kelly are currently planning for Assessment Day,

which will be held on Friday, October 7. Tom Angelo will provide the keynote speech, as

well as several workshops. The event is free.

3. LOC Orientation

Wendy provided a PowerPoint presentation as an introduction to LOC in which she

reviewed the mission and governance structure of LOC and the roles and duties of LOC

members. She also reflected on accreditation requirements and some perspectives

regarding the assessment of learning (culture of compliance – accreditation focused,

culture of intentionality – student focused), including guiding principles for SLO

assessment. Wendy also reviewed LOC mission and governance structure.

The Council discussed additional tasks for LOC, which included:

- Brainstorming activities to determine if students know about SLOs .

- Continue the SLO newsletter, possibly through the Comet Information Exchange

- Include all SLOs on the course syllabus (not just those that are being assessed that

semester)

- Verify that SLOs on the syllabus are the same SLOs in TracDat and that they conform

with ILOs

Wendy reviewed two models of SLO assessment. The first model was accreditation

focused, while the second model was student focused. She suggested that we post the

diagram of the student focused model on the TracDat and SLO Resources website.

Cheryl Kearse suggested that successful SLO forums or panel discussions be added to the

Assessment Day agenda.

Wendy also suggested that it may be necessary for facilitators to go through all of the

syllabi in their departments to make sure we are meeting the accreditation

recommendation.

4. GE/ILO Summer activities

Wendy provided a summary of the LOC activities conducted over the summer which

included:

1) June – writing workgroup met and agreed on some activities and goals. LOC needs to

decide how we proceed.

2) June – small LOC workgroup met to discuss assessing Knowledge of Human Culture

and the Physical and Natural World. LOC needs to finalize this assessment so that an

addendum can be added to the PRP document.

3) July/August – an LOC subgroup focusing on action for our GE/ILO assessment of

Intercultural Competency & Knowledge met several times and have outlined a plan of

action. LOC will have to review and approve.

4) Quantitative Literacy Action – create QL modules designed for specific disciplines.

Serena Mercado was hired to work on these modules. She had created modules for

accounting and is currently working with sociology and chemistry.

5. SLO Facilitators – SLOs versus objectives brainstorming

Due to time constraints, this item was not addressed.

Meeting adjourned at 3:55 p.m.

Next Meeting: September 8, 2016 2:00-3:30 p.m.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL September 8, 2016 Minutes

Approved – September 22, Day, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson Present: April Cunningham, Tess Emminger, Kelly Falcone, Hope Farquharson,

Katy Farrell, John Harland, Khaled Hussain, Sara Krause, Cheryl Kearse, Michael Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Dan Sourbeer, Anastasia Zavodny, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, Sarah DeSimone, Jenny Fererro, Adrian Gonzales, Susan Miller, Brian Stockert,

Recorder: Marti Snyder Meeting was called to order by Co-chair Wendy Nelson at 2:08 p.m.

1. Approve Minutes August 25, 2016MSC Kearse, Mufson, to approve the minutes of August 25, 2016 as amended.All in favor.

2. AnnouncementsApril Cunningham reported Dashboard, which was developed based on theassessment of Information Literacy, is in need of an update and mentionedthat funds are needed for the update.

Kelly Falcone suggested that the Council reflect back on its role of takingaction on an assessment and transferring ownership to the appropriatedepartment for maintenance and funding.

Michael Mufson announced the date for auditions (October 10) for Facing OurTruth: Six 10-Minute Play on Trayvon, Race & Privilege. Performance will runfrom December 2 -11.

3. Discuss SLO questions on PRP documentWendy Nelson informed the Council that a workgroup has been meeting torevise the PRP document. The Council reviewed the questions focused onstudent learning outcomes. The Council agreed that the questions wereappropriate with minor changes

Michael informed the Council that the new PRP will be implemented in athree-year cycle with one-third of departments participating this year, one-third participating the next year, and the remaining one-third participating in

year three. The departments that are not completing the comprehensive review will complete an annual update.

Wendy also informed the Council that the PRP will not be tied to resource requests and will serve more as a self-reflection and as a program planning tool.

4. Discuss plans for assessing Knowledge of Human Cultures and thePhysical and Natural World (KHCPNW) through the PRP processWendy stated that assessment of the KHCPNW ILO will be done at thedepartment level via the PRP.

Katy Farrell recommended that the Council not assess this ILO and that itshould be rewritten to ensure that students accurately understand the ILO.She suggested that the Council experiment with the ILO to determine howstudents will respond to it, then determine if the ILO can be assessedappropriately.

Cheryl Kearse suggested that this ILO be assessed considering what studentslearn outside the classroom in the “natural world,” stating that students learna considerable amount maneuvering through Student Services whileattending college and preparing for graduation/transfer.

Sara Krause suggested adding a Likert scale to the assessment tool to obtainmore statistical data.

Wendy stated that if the Council decides not to assess KHCPNW through thePRP, then an alternate assessment method needs to be determined.

Additional discussion ensued regarding the pros and cons of assessing theKHCPNW. Discussion will continue at the next LOC meeting.

5. Brainstorm LOC Goals for 2016-2017Due to time constraints, this item was not addressed.



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Approved – September 29, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson Present: Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Hope Farquharson, Katy Farrell, Jenny

Fererro, Cheryl Kearse, Sara Krause, Michael Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Dan Sourbeer, Anastasia Zavodny, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, April Cunningham, Adrian Gonzales, John Harland, Khaled Hussain, Susan Miller, Brian Stockert


1. Approve Minutes August 25, 2016MSC, Mufson, Fererro to approve the minutes as presented. All in favor.

2. AnnouncementsMichael Mufson announced October 7 as opening day of “Our Town,” byGordon Wilder.

3. SLO Facilitator reviewing syllabiWendy Nelson asked if the council feels it is appropriate to ask SLOfacilitators to look at all course syllabi in their respective departments tomake sure SLOs are clearly identified on the syllabi and are differentiatedfrom objectives.

Jenny Fererro mentioned that all departments house their own syllabi andshould have easy access for review.

Katy Farrell suggested that Census Day reporting include a box to check,confirming that SLOs are included in course syllabus.

Michael Mufson expressed concern that course SLO are not necessarilywritten by faculty teaching the course and the rewording of SLOs on thesyllabi to reflect SLOs instead of objectives needs to be assessed in a differentmanner than having each faculty review their own syllabi.

Wendy Nelson stated that in order to meet the accreditationrecommendation, all SLOs identified on the syllabi need to be the same SLOsreported in TracDat for those courses.

Jenny Fererro mentioned that it may be a bit overwhelming for Facilitators to review all SLOs and rewrite SLOs that sound like objectives. She mentioned that it may be easier to start small and do a small number at a time.

Hope Farquharson suggested that Council members serve as SLO champions and provide guidance to facilitators as they review course syllabi.

Kelly Falcone recommended that faculty take the ownership of the SLOs because they are the ones assessing them.

Wendy Nelson summarized the discussion stating that the Council agreed that in order to meet the accreditation recommendation, more emphasis should be placed on review of SLOs to differentiate from objective, rather than focus on course syllabi.

4. Request for tenure track faculty – SLO facilitatorMSC, Fererro, Zolliker to approve Peggy Mata as SLO facilitator. All in favor.

5. LOC Goals for 2016-2017Due to time constraints, this item was not addressed.

Wendy asked that the Council review the 2015-2016 LOC goals and considergoals for 2016-2017. She recommended listing few goals to ensure adequatetime to achieve each of the goals.


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Approved – October 13, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson Present: Michelle Barton, April Cunningham, Kelly Falcone, Hope Farquharson,

John Harland, Cheryl Kearse, Sara Krause, Susan Miller, Michael

Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Dan Sourbeer, Anastasia Zavodny, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, Sarah DeSimone, Tess Emminger, Katy Farrell, Jenny Fererro, Adrian Gonzales, Khaled Hussain, Brian Stockert


Meeting was called to order to Wendy Nelson at 2:37 p.m.

1. Approve Minutes September 29, 2016MSC, Barton, Miller, to approve the minutes as presented. All in favor.

2. AnnouncementsMichael announced October 7 as the opening of “Our Town,” a play that willkick off the theater season for Palomar. He also encouraged the Council tovisit Palomar Coffee Talks for related blog discussions.

Wendy encouraged council members to sign up for the Assessment Dayworkshops scheduled for Friday, October 7.

3. Request for tenure track faculty – SLO facilitatorMSC, Sourbeer, Mufson, to approve Sarah Coffin as SLO Facilitator. All infavor.

Michael Mufson suggested that all SLO facilitators be reminded of the SLOfacilitator job descriptions when submitting a request to serve as a SLOfacilitator.

Wendy Nelson suggested that she and Hope write a letter to the applicantreminding them of the process and responsibilities.

4. 2016-17 goalsWendy Nelson reviewed the 2015-2016 LOC goals and the Council agreed tocarry over and modify the following goals for the 2016-2017 academic year:

1. Organize a structure to evaluate the effectiveness of follow-up actions thathave been taken as a result of GE assessments.

2. Create a SLOAC model for interdisciplinary programs and certificates, e.g.Women’s Studies.

3. Clarify language of COR objectives and SLOs (accreditationrecommendation) Improve quality of course level outcomes.

4. Make SLOs more relevant and meaningful by reviewing our process,improving the quality of course and program SLOs and create a venuewhere disciplines with effective assessment programs can share theirmodels with others.

The 2016-2017 goals will be finalize at the next LOC meeting.

The Council held discussion on the process of including SLOs on CORs. Key points of the discussion included:

Cheryl Kearse reported that 76 of 113 colleges have SLOs on their CORs. SLOs would be included/updated on CORs when new course are proposed

and current courses are reviewed. Curriculum Committee must approve SLOs on CORs prior to a

development of a process to include SLOs on CORs.

Dan Sourbeer asked if the committee would like to make a recommendation

to the Curriculum Committee.

MSC, DS, Miller to approve that LOC endorse including SLOs on the CORs. Harland, Zolliker, Mufson abstain.

5. Strategic Plan Objective 1.2 – Knowledge of Human Cultures and thePhysical and Natural WorldMichelle Barton announced that the Council needs to create an action plan forhow to move forward on Objective 1.2.

Michelle summarized previous Council dialogue regarding whether theCouncil would like to keep Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physicaland Natural World as an ILO or re-evaluate the ILO.

Michelle suggested that the action plan, in such a scenario could include thefollowing steps:

Engage in initial dialogue on the ILO (i.e. what is it?)

Return to and review ILOs again Articulate and find an approach to examining the ILO.

If the Council determines in step one that Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World will no longer a College ILO, then assessing it would no longer be a part of the plan.

Wendy Nelson and Hope Farquharson will create a proposal for the language of Objective 1.2 and send it to SPC.

6. Strategic Plan Objective 1.3 – Education, Culture & KnowledgeWendy Nelson informed the Council that Education, Culture & Knowledgeworkgroup was formed as a result of the Intercultural Knowledge andCompetency assessment and has been meeting since the summer. The groupcreated goals and conducted a survey during fall plenary. Progress and plansof the ECK will be presented at a future LOC meeting.

7. Revisiting our GE/ILOs – part 1Wendy Nelson reviewed Palomar’s four ILOs. She compared them to the ILOsof Miramar College, which uses the same LEAP framework, but relies onstudent surveys as a means of assessment.

Wendy also reviewed the ILOs of CSUSM, Foothills College and Mira CostaCollege, which have identified different ILOs.

The Council will continue discussion about Palomar’s ILOs and methods ofassessment this year.


Next Meeting: October 13, 2016 2:30-4:00 p.m.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL October 13, 2016 Minutes

Approved – November 10, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson Present: April Cunningham, Tess Emminger, Hope Farquharson, Katy Farrell,

Jenny Fererro, John Harland, Khaled Hussain, Cheryl Kearse, Sara Krause, Michael Mufson, Anastasia Zavodny

Absent: Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Adrian Gonzales, Susan Miller, Wendy Nelson, Sue Zolliker, Dan Sourbeer, Brian Stockert

Recorder: Marti Snyder Meeting was called to order by Hope Farquharson at 2:36 p.m.

1. Approve Minutes September 29, 2016MSC, Cunningham, Krause, to approve the minutes as amended. Emminger,Farrell, Fererro abstained.

2. AnnouncementsCommittee members who attended assessment day gave a brief summary ofthe takeaways from the workshops, which included:

- High school students do higher level thinking in college, where othercountries finish this in high school.

- Metacognition is an important measure of student learning. What does astudent think they’ve learned?

- If you want to redesign curriculum, you have to assess at that level andthat drives how you teach and what you teach.

- Restructuring curriculum according to Bloom’s Taxonomy.- Giving students feedback and providing it at the appropriate time.

Students need to have motivation. There is no point in giving feedback if astudent is done with an assignment.

Jenny Fererro asked how this information is going to be shared with the campus at large.

Hope Farquharson announced that Kelly Falcone set up a blog to share the information from Assessment Day with the campus.

3. Approve 2016-2017 goalsThe Council reworded LOC goal number four to read:

“Facilitate improvement of the quality of SLOs in order to ensure that theyclearly state the expected knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies thatstudents are expected to acquire at our institution.”

MSC to approve Goal #4 as amended, Fererro, Harland. All in favor.

The Council reviewed Strategic Plan Goals #1.2 and #1.3. It was suggestedthat Goal #1.2 be eliminated entirely.

A member also recommended that the Council seek input from faculty afterwe decided on a new framework and before approval. She also suggested thatfaculty consider whether a GE/ILO is assessable before selecting it as aCollege ILO.

Cheryl Kearse recommended that the Council send out a survey for faculty toreview the ILOS and state their opinion on the ILO, possibly using a Likertscale for each GE/ILO, and asking for suggestions for methods of assessmen.t

Jenny Fererro recommended that the new GE/ILOs be discussed in divisionmeetings and also shared with Faculty Senate, Curriculum Committee, andIPC.

Michael Mufson suggested that the survey include questions such as:- Do you feel that this set of ILOs is complete?- Do they represent the College?- Does anything need to be added or removed?

4. Brainstorm strategies to achieve goalsHope asked for strategies for achieve the adopted LOC goals for 2016-2017.

Katy Farrell lobbied for the hiring of a full-time researcher to coordinate goalsand help the Council make progress toward the identified goals. Katy thenrecommended that the Council should break up in to small groups and eachaddress a different goal in order to ensure that the council achieves thesegoals by the end of the year.

Katy also asked that we add a fifth goal that includes the hiring of a full-timeresearcher/administrator to provide support to the Council.

Cheryl Kearse mentioned a prior Council conversation is which it was suggested that LOC be disbanded and duties being absorbed by the Curriculum Committee for the additional support.

A suggestion was made to the Council to identify Goals for the upcoming year during the final meetings of the Spring semester in order to enable the committee to work toward each of the identified goals beginning the first meeting of the fall semester instead of mid-October.

5. Revisiting our GE/ILOsDue to time constraints, this item was not addressed.


Next Meeting: October 27, 2016 2:30-4:00 p.m.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL October 27, 2016 Minutes

Approved – November 10, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson Present: Dan Sourbeer, Katy Farrell, John Harland, Sara Krause, Michael Mufson,

Anastasia Zavodny, Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Susan Miller, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, Adrian Gonzales, Brian Stockert, Hope Farquharson, Jenny Fererro, Khaled Hussain, April Cunningham, Tess Emminger, Cheryl Kearse


Meeting was called to order by Wendy Nelson at 2:35 p.m.

1. Approve Minutes Oct. 13, 2016A quorum was not met. The minutes were not approved.

2. AnnouncementsWendy Nelson shared her experiences and what she learned from the 2016Assessment Conference.Michael Mufson announced upcoming Performing Arts events.Members discussed the PFF’s resolution regarding SLOS on CORs.

3. Strategies for to achieve 2016-2017 goals

Goal #1 Create a process to evaluate the effectiveness of follow-up actionsthat have been take as a result of GE/ILO assessments.

There was a long discussion about the action taken as a result of theInformation Literacy assessment – the creation of the Dashboard - hasplayed out. Members agreed that we could learn from this process aswe put new procedures into place.

The discussion led to a separation of this goal into two parts: 1)Determining who should own and be responsible for the action. 2) Howwe go about assessing the action and determining where we shouldstore the data.

1. Determining who should own and be responsible for the action. Most of the action we take after assessing GE/ILOs is to help students.

So several members suggested housing some of this action at theTeaching and Learning Center and its Web site.

Another member suggested that an academic area specialist wouldneed to partner with the TLC to guide the process.

Members agreed that the academic area expert would need to becompensated for their time.

2. How do we go about assessing the action and determining where weshould store the data? The results should be stored in TracDat for each assessment of action

taken as a result of GE/ILO assessments Another member suggested how important it is to ask whether the tool

was successful and if it had an institution wide effect. Members agreed that Institutional Research and Planning could help

with these efforts.

Goal #2 Create a SLOAC model for interdisciplinary programs that offer degrees and certificates, e.g. Women’s Studies.

The members agreed that LOC needs to determine how many of theseprograms exist – create a list.

Look for models from other colleges and see what they are doingassess interdisciplinary programs.

Goal #3 Evaluate the College’s GE/ILOs and or current assessment methods. We reviewed the discussion from the previous week and agreed that

once we review our current GE/ILOs and assessment methods weshould share our findings with the faculty and encourage feedback.

We decided to form a workgroup to look at our GE/ILOs in Novemberand report back to LOC at the December meeting.

Goal # 4 Facilitate improvement of the quality of SLOs in order to ensure that

they clearly state the expected knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies

that students are expected to acquire at our institution.

Due to time constraints, this item was not addressed.

Meeting adjourned at 4:10 p.m. Next Meeting: November 10, 2016

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LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL November 10, 2016 Minutes

Approved – December 8, 2016

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson Present: April Cunningham, Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Jenny Fererro, John

Harland, Cheryl Kearse, Sara Krause, Susan Miller, Michael Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Anastasia Zavodny, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Alan Aquallo, Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, Hope Farquharson, Katy Farrell, Adrian Gonzales, Khaled Hussain, Dan Sourbeer, Brian Stockert


1. Approve Minutes of October 13, 2016 and October 27, 2016MSC, Fererro, Cunningham, to approve the minutes for October 13, 2016 asamended. All in favor.MSC, Mufson, Harland, to approve the minutes for October 27, 2016 asamended. All in favor with two abstentions.

2. AnnouncementsThere were no announcements.

3. SLO and CORs updateWendy Nelson confirmed that the Curriculum Committee approvedplacement of SLOs on CORs at the most recent meeting. The next step will beto address the logistics involved in getting the information from TracDat toCurricUNET so that SLOs can appear on the CORs.

4. GE/ILO Intercultural Knowledge and Competence Assessment action:Education, Knowledge & Culture workgroup report. Wendy Nelson andMichael Mufson

Wendy Nelson reviewed the assessment timeline and summarized the recommendations from the initial workgroup, the Council, and the Education, Knowledge & Culture workgroup which include:

- Shift the culture of the institution.- PD training for faculty and staff, to model and teach intercultural

competence.- Cultural Competency Toolkit.- Campus Explorations theme.

- Campus-wide events to celebrate diversity.- Align the courses that meet the multi-cultural requirement. Create an

SLO for these courses.

The ECK workgroup also identified goals that include: - Gain insight into perceptions of diversity at Palomar College.- Provide visibility and coordination for existing groups and activities that

support the ECK mission at Palomar.- Create an educational campaign on campus to broaden overall critical

multicultural consciousness at Palomar College.- Increase faculty and staff diversity.

Michael Mufson informed the Council of Palomar Coffee Talks, Engagement of the Arts, a project that coincides with the intercultural knowledge and competence conversation. This year’s Coffee Talks focus is the evolving American identity. Michael has created a “dialogue blog” to encourage conversation on race, designed to be used as a platform for engaging dialogue between faculty, students, and the institution.

The Council also named a few resources helpful in recruitment of a more diverse faculty and staff.

Mufson Mufson stated that the workgroup proposed to change the name of the outcome from “Intercultural Competency” to “Critical Multicultural Consciousness.”

5. GE/ILO Quantitative Literacy Assessment action: Quantitative LiteracySupplements. John Harland.

John Harland reviewed the framework for the Quantitative Literacy Supplements and discussed the timeline for development and implementation. A few supplements are in development through My Open Math. However, additional feedback from faculty participating in the pilot is needed to determine other useful supplements.

The Council will discuss additional funding, revised timeline for launch of the supplements and/or an alternative action.

6. GE/ILO Written Communication Assessment action: 2016 SummerWorkgroup report. Wendy Nelson.Wendy Nelson summarized action ideas from a summer workgroup for theWritten Communication assessment. These included:

Faculty Support Increase awareness of online resources. Increase awareness of the following local resources.

Writing center – library – mini-workshops.ESL tutoring – Dashboard.

Rethink Faculty Resource Center. Help teachers of English learners to assess writing. Modify rubric for specific disciplines.

Student support Improve Dashboard and compensate faculty involved. Increase awareness of tutoring Centers. Consider expanding writing center hours. More embedded tutors. More centralized set of online resources/online tutoring.

Additional ideas for action for both faculty and students Creating a website specifically dedicated to how to write at college level

(http://owl.excelsior.edu/). Encourage students to go to the writing center before allowing them to

submit a revised paper. House all services/resources in one place. Create and use referral slips that all look the same, for each resource on

campus. Make all learning resources more consistent across the board for each

ILO action. We should be thinking more systemically so that we’re notrecreating the wheel.

Create a Center for Teaching Excellence that is solely devoted toexcellence in instruction and a Center for Learning Excellence forstudents.

Need for an instructional designer to create supplements and onlinecourses.

7. GE/ILO Digital Literacy Assessment update. Wendy NelsonDue to time constraints, this item was not addressed.

Next Meeting: December 8, 2016 2:30-4:00 p.m.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL February 9, 2017 Minutes

Approved – February 23, 2017

Co-Chairs: Dan Sourbeer, Susan Miller, Wendy Nelson (on sabbatical leave), Hope Farquharson

Present: April Cunningham, Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Hope Farquharson, Katy Farrell, Khaled Hussain, Sara Krause, Susan Miller, Michael Mufson, Dan Sourbeer, Anastasia Zavodny, Sue Zolliker

Absent: Alan Aquallo, Michelle Barton, Joi Blake, Jenny Fererro, Adrian Gonzales, Cheryl Kearse, Brian Stockert


The meeting was called to order by Co-chair Hope Farquharson at 2:40 p.m. and began with introductions of the group.

1. Approve Minutes December 8, 2016MSC, Mufson, DeSimone, to approve the minutes as amended. All in favor withone abstention.

2. AnnouncementsSusan Miller mentioned that the first workshop of the cultural intelligenceseries will be held tomorrow in MD-105 at 11 a.m. The topic will beundocumented students.

April Cunningham announced that the Comets Affordable Learning Materialsprogram is in full swing this semester, for zero cost textbooks program. Sheannounced a half-day conference to be held on February 24th at 10 a.m.,which will showcase college campuses who have already made great stridesin creating zero cost textbook programs.

Michael Mufson announced that this Friday will be “Hijab Friday” in honor ofthe Muslim faith and culture and will serve as an opportunity for campusfaculty, staff and students to join with the Vista mosque at 1 p.m.

Dan Sourbeer shared that ACCJC officially announced that Palomar Collegehas met the standards for compliance and will remain fully accredited. Healso stated that the College is currently planning two substantive change

proposals for the North and South Centers, and possibly a third proposal related to a curriculum change. Kelly Falcone announced that the first session of the Redesigning America’s Community Colleges book review Coffee Talks began today and shared the schedule of meeting dates for the continued discussion. Hope Farquharson will be traveling to Napa for the Academic Senate SLO symposium and accreditation conference. Hope Farquharson and Susan Miller met with Ben Mudgett to discuss assessment of SLOs for University Studies. Ben will propose to the Curriculum Committee possible methods of assessment of program SLOs. Susan also provided a summary of the difference between university studies and ADT degrees. Hope Farquharson met with Barbara Blanchard and Suzanne Sebring regarding the assessment of non-credit courses. Non-credit courses will now belong to and be assessed by their respective departments.

3. Roles and Responsibilities for Tri Chairs Hope Farquharson reviewed the responsibilities of the SLO Tri-chars as well as the role of the LOC support position. The roles and responsibilities for Tri-chairs and support are as follows: Coordinator Duty Responsible Party GE/ILO Assessment Hope TracDat Susan and Marti Accreditation Hope, Dan, and Marti PRP Process Hope SLO Facilitators Susan Misc. duties All

4. 2016-2017 Goals

Hope Farquharson shared the new table format of the 2016-17 LOC goals, which identifies projected and actual completion dates and responsible parties for each goal reviewed the goals table. The Council reviewed each of the goals.

Goal 1 – Create a process to evaluate the effectiveness of follow-up action that have been taken as a result of GE assessments. The Council reiterated that a process needs to be created for which entity will take ownership of the action after each GE/ILO has been assessed and recommendations for action have been made. There needs to be a procedure in place to ensure that action has been carried out and to evaluate the effectiveness of the action. Goal 2 – Create SLOAC model for interdisciplinary programs that offer degrees and certificates. Susan Miller informed the Council that she will be working with Devon Smith to come up with more creative ways to assess Women’s Studies. Susan Miller also informed the Council that she and Hope recently met with Ben Mudgett and discussed creative ways to assess University Studies degrees. Ben will be taking on the role of SLO facilitator for University Studies and focus on mapping those degrees to program SLOs. Goal 3 – Evaluate the College’s GE/ILOs and our current assessment methods. Kelly Falcone suggested that programs be backwards-designed, identifying first what students should accomplish by graduation, then identify programs SLOs, and then course SLOs. Michael Mufson stated that a nuance to the backwards design approach is that a number of ILOs are developed from the GE aspect and not from the program. He referenced a TracDat chart that shows the relation of course SLOs to program SLOs as helpful to SLO facilitators in relating course and program SLOs and ILOs. Hope Farquharson asked that Michael Mufson share with the Council, at the next meeting, how his program and courses are mapped to illustrate how courses map to GE/ILOs and not quite connect to program SLOs. Goal 4 – Facilitate improvement of the quality of SLO’s and ensure that they clearly state the expected knowledge, skill, attitudes and competencies that students are expected to acquire at our institution.

Hope Farquharson stated that the Curriculum Committee will develop a process for how SLOs will be reflected on the COR. Exemplary SLOs can then be showcased at Fall Plenary and future trainings of SLO facilitators.

5. Priorities for Spring 2017 Hope Farquharson reviewed some potential priorities for spring including:

- Address GE/ILOs - Accreditation update - Support for facilitators - LOC members top priorities

After lengthy discussion, the Council also added ongoing training related to SLOs and objectives to the list of priorities for spring. The Council expressed a desire to create a simple diagram to illustrate the relation of learning outcomes from the institutional level down to program and course level, ending in course objectives, focusing on a top-down approach to mapping learning outcomes. Some of the Council members noted that there is little difference in SLOs and objectives and suggested that the Council change the language of “SLOs vs. Objectives” to language more descriptive of objectives as building blocks to SLOs, or by backwards design, creating objectives to meet SLOs. Hope will bring additional information to the Council to clarify the relationship of objectives to SLOs.

6. Expectations of SLO facilitators Susan Miller presented a short SLO facilitator survey she developed to determine challenges in the role and further assistance desired/required from the Council and the SLO coordinators. The Council suggested edits to the survey, which will be revisited at the next meeting of LOC.

7. Digital Literacy workgroup update Due to time constraints, this item was not addressed.

8. ECK and SSEC workshops Hope Farquharson reminded the Council that the all assessment and action related to Intercultural Knowledge and Competency is now closed out now that the ECK workgroup and SSEC have taken over with the Cultural Intelligence series of PD workshops.

9. TracDat update/upgrade Due to time constraints, these items were not addressed.

Next Meeting: February 23, 2017

2:30-4:00 p.m. AA-140

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