Title III -- Strengthening Institutions Program
August 2006 Progress Report

Accomplishment	Action Required to Meet Objective	Personnel	Outcome
Title III and IR staff prepare to assist college programs with identification of outcomes indicators	IR and Title III staff participate in facilitator training for Learning Outcomes effort	Cathy Dickerson, Liz Crickard, Steve Grimes	Common frame of reference for program development of data indicators for outcomes
Title III and IR offer CR sessions at Convocation	Content determined and afternoon Convocation sessions titled “Student Indicators, informing Our Work” collaboratively developed and presented by Title III and IR	Cathy Dickerson, Liz Crickard	Faculty and staff are presented with CR student performance data
IR staff provided with Colleague/Datatel training	Research Assistant receives Datatel training from Sue Bailey and enrolls in online Datatel courses	Steve Grimes, Sue Bailey	Research Assistant familiar with data fields and structure of Datatel
Daily data extracts freezing student and course level data begins on day 1 of fall semester	IR and ITS collaboration on developing scripts to extract data fields from Datatel for IR use	Liz Crickard, John McBrearty, Steve Grimes, Paul Chown	Data for beginnings of data warehouse captured and sent to IR daily
IR department clerical support vacancy filled	Offer and acceptance by candidate Michele Vagel	Liz Crickard, Connie Carlson, Board of Trustees	IR Department support in place
Grant expenditures for first year monitored	Salaries and benefits reports and purchase records aggregated and totaled by Title III and Business Office staff	Cathy Dickerson, Kathie Simas	Grant Leadership Team informed of summary of grant expenses
Activities Director duties transition to interim personnel	Additional time is contracted for Project Director to assume direction of activities with the help of an activities assistant until a replacement for the former activities director is identified	Cathy Dickerson, Maureen Scott, Title III Leadership Team	Grant activities proceed without lapse