The committee should ask the new Chancellor to work with them early on. It might be a good idea to invite the chair of the site visitation team from North Central to come to campus prior to the team's visit. Dean Foote discussed with the committee how the final report might be assembled. The Chair could then develop a draft of the Self-Study Report to be circulated for comments among the members of the Steering Committee and the Task Forces. The mechanics of the site visit was discussed.
Deans are key people.
Experienced team members will have their own agenda during the visit and know what they want to see. Assignments for the evaluators seemed to be based on the team members' specialty area. Dean Foote stressed that the self study should emphasize the strong, positive points of the University. The Committee, discussing Dean Foote's comments, decided that they would devote two meetings to brainstorming on the good points of SIUC and how to emphasize them. Winters suggested having Joe Foote serve as one of our test readers using his experience as an evaluator.