Hirst took over and covered the SACS Self-Study. SACS is looking for overall summaries from the self-study. The Steering Committee recommended to the Chancellor that institutional effectiveness be added to the annual reports. A bulleted list will be okay for this. The addition will be voluntary this year, but required next year.
Institutional effectiveness is already in the planning manual for the five-year planning cycle.
We are good at doing institutional effectiveness, but not as good at documenting it. J. Smith covered the Summer Grants agenda item and pointed to the Summer Grant draft document. Hirst asked how many grants would be available. This does not include course release. Aeschleman suggested listing types of data available for use or general areas of questions that could be covered, since some may ask what is available.