NEASC Update 01/30/17: The Endicott Survey

Comrades!

I hope the dawn of the new semester finds you well. Personally, I am feeling jetlagged. My body is in Semester Two while a good chunk of my mind and diminishing attention is trapped in Semester One.

So it goes.

Your friendly neighborhood NEASC Steering Committee has signed South up for the mandatory Endicott Survey. The administrator, Endicott College, will send the survey out to our parents via email. Parents can take the survey either in English or in Spanish. The average parental return rate is about 20 percent. Hopefully, by talking it up a bit, we can do better.

Most students will take part in the survey online when they sign up for new courses. Seniors will take it … sometime later.

Faculty and staff should take the survey thusly (it takes about ten minutes):

Go to the website www.endicottresearchcenter.net

 Enter the survey code, BBBBBBB and click GO.   

At survey’s end click, SUBMIT

The goal, then, is to get the self-study done by January 2018, a year from now, well in time for the Visiting Committee's arrival in March 2018. The Steering Committee will meet within the third week of each month to aggregate the work of the Standards Committees and to make sure we aren’t missing anything.

Standards Committee chairs, working with their Steering Committee liaison, should create a list of deadlines and time-certain dates for evidence collection. Once this document exists, it ought to be shared with the Steering Committee. ‘Twould be nice to get these lists by the third week of February. (P.S. Doodle is a great tool for finding common meeting times.)

Keith says we have April early-release to work with, and many departments (social studies being one exception) will have the March early-release as well. Additional meetings can be conducted after or before school, or via the Internet (email, Google Docs, Google Hangout, etc.) Pro Tip: Use your tools. You’ll want to meet face-to-face for some of it, but if you can do the work via email and Google Docs, you probably should.

That is all for the moment, friends. May the Force be with you.

Rob Greene