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College of Education and Human Services
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh


Name of Committee: NCATE Steering Committee
Date of meeting: February 24, 2006
Stated meeting time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location of meeting: 212 Nursing/Education
Meeting minutes prepared by: Michael Beeth and Susan Cramer

Steering Committee Members present: Beeth, Lampe, Inda, Meyerson, Henn-Reinki, Becker, Ford, Steiner, Simmons, Talkington, Cramer, Lemberger, Petronicolos,

Steering Committee Absent: Dean Yeo, Bain, Doemel, Chaing, Petesch, Saginak, Fiedler, Lampe, Hagen, Adams,

Meeting called to order by Beeth at 9:00 AM

Open Session:

Beeth moved for approval of minutes from November 21, 2005.
Meeting minutes were approved: All ayes no nays.

Beeth thanked everyone for attending the meeting and asked that all information for the bios to be sent as an email to Talkington at talkingt@uwosh.edu by March 20th. Talkington will place the data on the NCATE website.

Dr. Cramer asked if everyone looked over the notebook and documents that were distributed at the November meeting. Dr. Cramer shared that the committee is working on the timeline and there will be a big push starting Fall 06 for collection of materials.

Standard 1: Candidate Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions –Jean Inda and Bryan Bain
Inda reported to the committee the progress on Standard 1.

Items discussed:

  • Class Syllabi: The possibility of creating a template. It was decided that a memo would be sent out to list what NCATE will require in the syllabi and each instructor will follow those guidelines.
  • The possibility of an outside organization or person who have recently gone through the NCATE process to be invited to give a presentation on how they structured the collection and archiving of information. It was suggested we revisit this idea after more material has been collected.

Conceptual Framework: Loucas Petronicolos

Some things to look at:

  • The possibility of overhauling the conceptual model.
  • The forms looked at and reworked. Some pre-date state teaching standards.
  • Data collection and management needs to be defined.
  • Where will the data be collected.
  • Who will be in charge of looking at the data and sorting it.
  • Where will all the data be stored.
  • How to show collectively how each department looks at categories, creates change agents, and then the individual department work collectively as a group to bring about these changes.
  • Determine what life-long learner means to the college.

It was discussed and decided that at each committee meeting time will be set aside for the committee to look at data and sort it. Data will need to be collected over time to show a history of what was collected, how the data was used, and how the data determined what changes were made.

Standard 3: Field Experiences and Clinical Practice –Mary Beth Petesch
Will revisit at the March 2006 meeting.

Standard 4: Diversity –Perry Retig John Lemberger

Lemberger shared with the committee the statistics show that the student population is not very diverse.

Items discussed were:

  • Presenting the information regarding diversity as it is.
  • Show a good faith effort to add diversity such as
    • Present outside programs
    • Field experience
    • Students and their contact with diverse faculty members.

Standard 5: Faculty Qualifications, Performance and Development –Thomas Fischer

Items discussed were:

  • Faculty Bios: This was the first step in the faculty qualifications process. Committee is in the process of collecting the information and posting it on line.
  • Vitas were looked at as the possible second step.
  • The possibility of creating a list of guidelines for a Vita that is more inline with what NCATE wants.
    • Simple, specific and straightforward.

Standard 6: Unit Governance and Resources – Dean Yeo
Beeth presented the following discussion:

  • Advising is under this category. The college will need to show better faith in this area.

Future Dates for the NCATE meetings are as follows:
March 24th. 1:30 – 3:30 Working Meeting
April 28th 9:00 – 11:00
May 24th 1:30 – 3:30 This will be the last meeting for the year. This meeting will be an important for the strategic planning for next year.

The committee was asked to contact Cramer and Beeth with names of people who will be serving on their committees.

Information for updating the alignment should be sent to Cramer.

Meeting adjourned at 11:00.


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