Lund reported identifying outside evaluators for the department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Prof. Glennon turned in a draft of the English evaluation to the chair of that department for comment. Prof. Kulick began the evaluation process with the department of Political Science, which expressed a desire not to have it pushed to next year, when members of the department would be on sabbatical. The committee's evaluation process and its relation to other outcomes assessment and planning processes in the college were widely discussed. The committee believes that change in its process is needed, but was less clear what that change ought to be.
Evaluations are chronically behind schedule.
One suggestion was to expand the committee so as to spread the workload among more members. The discussion turned to structural, rather than staffing, difficulties. The college has other outcomes assessment mechanisms in progress in which the chairs and program directors report to the Academic Vice President and ad hoc committees. Dean Ruwe will report back to the committee about the other outcomes assessment and academic planning processes. The current procedures for Curriculum Committee evaluations were seriously criticized for being an overly prescriptive impediment.