Scribe: Chris O’Connor

Present at the Meeting: Kelly Hatas, Deborah Knutson, Paul Madden, Mary Ann Malone, Chris O’Connor, Rhoni Rader, Dale Taylor, Bob Trusz,. Ann Wiard

The team agreed that our next meeting date would be on Friday, January 20th at 11:00. Chris will reserve a conference room and e-mail the location to the rest of the team.

Dale agreed to collect some of the more easily accessible existing information on the current status of advising for distribution at our next meeting.

Bob agreed to bring a list of peer institutions that has been used for various purposes in the past.

Prior to the next meeting, we will all read the university’s current advising policy, review the charge to the team, and study the Action Project Details distributed at the Kickoff of AQIP Action Projects. The Noel-Levitz report should be available on the web sometime during the week of January 9th; team members should begin familiarizing themselves with its content.

Concerns were expressed regarding various topics including the advising of undecided students, students seeking to be accepted into selective programs, and at risk students; the very large number of advisees assigned to some advisors; advisors’ readiness to answer students’ questions; and the impact of our transition to semesters on student advising.

At our next meeting we will review and discuss the charge to the team and the implementation of the timeline attached to the charge to the team.