Kale provided an update on Ad Astra and Platinum Analytics and demonstrated the sandbox environment. The system is live and the SEM team has just seen the first iteration of predictive data and are working to improve it. They will need to gather input from department chairs and counselors to understand which predictions are helpful and which are false, and then improve the system so that it gives fewer erroneous predictions. Instructional deans and department chairs currently have access. Kale is rolling out the program to individual divisions, and the goal is to "democratize" this data and make it available to as many people as is feasible rather than walling it off. Kale noted that scheduling should focus on the students and on solving scheduling challenges. 

Over the past two years, the College defined 9 "Areas of Interest," and sorted all programs into an Area. The goal was to help students find a pathway and a major more quickly, as opposed to sorting through 200+ programs individually. However, as implementation began, it was decided that the 9 areas still seemed unwieldy and should be collapsed into four "schools" under which the area of interests and programs would be sorted. Also, there are now 8 areas of interest rather than 9. Conversations are still unfolding around how the Pathways Communities will be structured and what experience we want students to have. We want to create support communities for all students. Lisa noted that this is the "1.0" version and we will improve it as we go. There is no perfect way to organize the College's many programs, but this is one way we think will work well for us. 

The trainer walked the group through the elements of governance, the background, and the "why." One key point is that everyone has different definitions of what governance means. There was a questionnaire for each governance leader to make commitments to themselves in terms of what skills they hope to develop, etc. If you are new to governance, consider reviewing the slides from the presentation (attached to this agenda in IGOR). Feedback on the space in which the meeting was held: it would have been nicer to have been in a different space where participants could see each other and possibly stand up and form a circle. 

A lot has been asked of the DI project team, and we may offer additional resources to this team such as re-assigned time. One recommendation that came forward is to expand the membership to include both a faculty member and a staff member of African American descent. Lisa will discuss with the Latinx and Native American team leads to find out if they'd like a similar change to be made. The team will also include non-voting resource persons in order to be inclusive of all who want to participate. 

Regarding the EMP team, there was a question asked at Senate about why there is not student representation on the team. The EMP project team chair thought adding a student member would be a great idea. We will recommend to President Greene that a student position be added to the EMP project team.