Admissions & Financial Aid Committee Minutes

April 1, 2004

 

Present:  C. Bellomo, K. Edgin, K. Green, T. Lumumba-Kasongo, L. Miller-Bernal, N. Pellegrino, D. Reis, and S. Sloan

 

 

  1. The March 18th minutes were approved with minor corrections.

 

  1. Discussion about which date to present the survey findings followed. It was decided that May 4th at 4:30 would be the first choice with April 27th being a back-up date pending the status of the Dean’s Forum scheduled for April 27th.

 

  1. There was discussion about the difference between an open meeting and a special meeting. A special meeting is called for by three faculty members and the faculty secretary is responsible for taking minutes and calling the meeting. An open meeting allows for people other than the usual audience to attend and does not need to be called by the faculty secretary.

 

  1. Susan will check to see if Sarah Knowlton can put together more of the data in SPSS for presentation purposes.

 

  1. There was discussion on how to present the material. Should quantitative and qualitative material be mixed in the presentation? Should there be bar graphs or just raw numbers? Raw numbers vs. percentages? More discussion to follow at the next meeting to answer some of these questions.

 

  1. It was decided that instead of asking Sarah Knowlton to put together the data, Nicole Pellegrino would do it since the information is more intimate to her, being a member of the committee.

 

  1. Everyone is asked to go through their surveys and find some questions they think should be included.  Only valid percents and frequencies should be looked at. Map those on a blank survey for next week’s meeting.

 

  1. Professor Lumumba-Kasongo will chair next weeks meeting in Professor Reis’s absence.

 

  1. The meeting was adjourned at 1:30pm

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Nicole Pellegrino, secretary pro. Temp.