Student Committee Meeting – 10/2/23
Attending: Caron Westland, Elena Sandoval-Lucero, Sofia Chapparo, Joshua Martin, Jennier Camacho Taylor, Jim Christensen, Ron Tzur
Guests: Dean Marvin Lynn and Associate Dorothy Garrison
- The Dean’s goal this year is to get to know students better.
- Would like to form a student leadership or governance body to get input in initiatives like the strategic plan.
University Academic Integrity Committee
- Caron and Sofia serve on the committee now. Elena is willing to join that committee. Caron is willing to stay on or be an alternate.
- Once an appeal has gone through the SEHD committee it goes up to the university committee.
- The positives – Cases are fairly clear. With the front-end work completed everything is decided within the appeal meeting.
- The challenge – There can be quite a few towards the end of the semester.
- There has not been training for new members yet. Sofia will reach out to see when she and Elena can attend a training.
Goals for the year
Student Feedback (new initiative)
- Promoting the importance and timeliness of feedback for student work
- Action points:
- Collection of data to assess feedback concerns in order to address the issues.
- Small dialogue groups/sharing general guidelines on feedback.
- Ask for time on the next faculty retreat agenda to have the conversation.
- Follow-up with lunch & learn discussions and/o, accountability partners.
Student celebrations (continuing initiative)
- With the changes in the department, we need to clarify how to get information to Julia to be used for promotion and marketing. Caron will invite Julia to next meeting)
- For strategic plan alignment – social media networks, highlighting amazing student work to help with both student recognition and enrollment.
Outstanding Graduate Process (continuing initiative)
- We no longer have staff support to gather and manage data.
- Students find it meaningful to be nominated.
- The process has been cumbersome and time consuming for faculty.
- We would like to create a system (formstack) for rolling nominations:
- To make the process easier for programs
- Allow students to self-nominate.
- Connect to outstanding graduates but have ongoing recognition such as student of the month (SEHD Impact) and highlight more of our outstanding student work.
- Nominees and nominators could be entered into a regular drawing for Starbucks cards or other rewards.
Next meeting to 11/6/23