Minutes

August 2 , 2007

Council Members in Attendance:  Garrett Hinshaw, Coy Hudson, Wayne Wooten, Bill Dulin, Wes Bunch, Linda Lutz, Ron Valentini, Christine Holt, and Charles White
Also Attending: Sherry Williams

THIS WAS A SPECIAL OFF-CAMPUS MEETING SCHEDULED PRIMARILY TO REVIEW THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

Agenda Items and Actions Taken

1. Approval of Strategic Planning Process & Strategic Directions Linked to NCCCS Goals – Coy called for approval of the two revised documents which had been sent to Council members prior to the meeting. After a couple of suggested changes the Council voiced approval and consented to have Charles post the documents on the Institutional Effectiveness, Research and Planning web site once the changes have been made.

2. Standards of Excellence – Coy reminded everyone to begin to consider what the new Standards of Excellence will be. The Standards of Excellence will supplant the Benchmarks of Accountability. Charles has sent out a draft set of Standards patterned after the old Benchmarks. He also aligned these Standards with our new Strategic Directions. The Council was in agreement that there needs to be considerable dialogue on these Standards before they are approved and this process may well take several months.

3. Mission Statement, Vision Statement – Coy also reminded the Council that the College Mission Statement and Vision Statement will need to be reviewed once the Strategic Plan is finalized.  Charles mentioned that the Standards will affect the annual surveying efforts, therefore, until the Standards are set the Council must decide what surveying will take place this year.

4. Annual Assessment Report 2006- 07 – Charles informed the Council that the Annual Assessment Report for 2006-2007 may now be perused by going to the Intranet, clicking on IE, Research and Planning and selected the link for this report.  Charles also provided a comparison report of the objectives met for the past six years.  Seventy-seven percent of College objectives were met for 2006-2007 while the average for objectives met for the six year period was 81%. Charles also gave a brief update on the new online objectives reporting system. The system is ready to be implemented once the Strategic Plan has been finalized. This system will be more “user friendly” than the old system and will allow many more people to have access to the preparation of annual objectives.  Dr. Hinshaw directed Charles to provide a training session on the new online system for the vice presidents and then the vice presidents will train their employees. Dr. Hinshaw will contact Charles later to establish the timeframe to have the training done.

5. Strategic Planning Objectives – Dr. Hinshaw began the review and revision of the Strategic Objectives.  By day’s end the Strategic Objectives had been discussed at length and reduced to a manageable number. After some further examination the Strategic Objectives will be presented to the Administrative Council. 

6. Reminder of Next Meeting – The next SPC meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. The meeting was adjourned.