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OF THE FACULTY SENATE FEBRUARY 10, 2016

he thinks was a suggestion. He just wants to repeat it just to get it down on the table which is this concept of getting the summary out there to satisfy the students’ requests to make them happy – they want it. If that is easier to get up, then make sure we get that up by fall with the idea that there could be a link for more details that could go to the greater page and that is something that could be added later. So, it seems like this could be done in stages but it is important to get these summary statements out there and available to the students as soon as possible. Then if students do ask President Berkman about why they are only getting part of it, he can say that we will have it and we are working on it and we can get this to you now.

Senator Vickie Gallagher noted that there are a couple of things – the rationale for not having the full data right away is exactly what Dr. Krebs said is confusing because some are one to five and some are one to four. We need to explain that in some manner. Even people who have been trained in statistics are trying to get their heads around that. She added that the other problem is still the sample size. The sample size is very volatile and until we get that up, that is going to be very problematic. She worked at Northern Kentucky University for three years before coming to CSU and they didn’t release grades to students until they filled that out and they would get their grades always after the semester ended if they didn’t fill it out. So, we need to figure that out because we all understand what sample size means and that’s very problematic until we have a stable mean as well.

Dr. Sridhar said that he could ask Vice Provost Teresa LaGrange’s Office to put together two things. One, a time estimate of how long it would take to do this solution of presenting some data and then clicking on to see full data and two, some mock-ups of what the presentation format would look like. He noted that we have heard a lot today about what data may be confusing and whether students can read this and those kinds of things so it would be a good idea for us to see a couple of mock-ups of how the data can be presented so that we can actually have a substantive discussion about that.

Senator Raymond Henry, a member of UFAC, emphasized that the decisions here weren’t made to restrict access. You can read the principles and it says that the Faculty Senate is committed to sharing the SEI data. This is about the feasibility of doing it and also following the other principles such as not releasing data until the validity can be determined with a sufficient data-set. So, all of these principles are bringing up a more stepped approach to rolling this out and there is no intent from anyone to restrict data and he just wanted to clarify that. He went on to say that this is a question of presenting data in this particular system at this particular time and recognizing that as we get better with it, the roll-out will be more complete and that is an important thing to remember.

Professor Gibson said that when we collect that data, faculty research, we have to be informed. So, if we are publishing data, we should have informed consent if data is not like full data of all professors together. So if it has selected data, like a private phone number of a professor, we need to have informed consent of the professor.