CEPP Meeting Minutes

28 October 2026, 15:10–16:10 @CIS 265

CEPP Members Present: Yelena Biberman (Faculty), Kim Frederick (Faculty), David Howson (Faculty), Ryan Richard Overbey (Chair), Javier Perez-Moreno (Faculty), Kelly Sheppard (Assessment), Kate Sterling (SGA VPAA), Natalie Taylor (Interim DoF/VPAA), Leo Thomson (SGA)

CEPP Members Absent: Adrian Bautista (DoS/VPSA),

Attendees: Jamin Totino (Associate Dean of Student Affairs, The Learning Commons)

Guests: None

Scribe: Kim Frederick

Meeting Items

1. Approve minutes from 2026-10-21
   • The minutes were approved.
2. Update on IDC/CIGU member question to CEPP about Indigenous People’s Day and Fall semester Study Day

• • We reviewed the email chain with Corey Freeman-Gallant and Dave DeConno and the two proposed solutions:
    • Make a carve out on the occasion that Study Day overlaps with Indigenous People’s Day that programming could still be done for Indigenous People’s Day.
    • Choose to schedule Study Day on a weekend that does not involve Indigenous People’s Day
  • After discussion, CEPP was unanimous in supporting option 2.  Ryan will reach out to Dave DeConno about adjusting the calendar as needed.  We also reviewed the upcoming calendars to ensure that this request was likely to be feasible.  Ryan will also report back to the IDC/CIGU member who made the initial inquiry.

3. Review of General Education Assessment Plan [Kelly Sheppard]
   • This year we are working on:
     • Bridge Experience- developing criteria and tools
     • Senior Coda- design and implement first assessment of the Coda
     • Visual Literacy - review of department and program assessments of last 5 years
     • Language, Humanistic Inquiry and Artistic Inquiry- develop assessment criteria and tools
       • Overall assessment
       • How are students fulfilling requirements?
     • Staffing and enrollments
4. Global Perspective Inventory Assessment Results [Kelly Sheppard]
   • Kelly presented an overview of the Global Perspectives Inventory.  We also discussed how the GPI is a match for and not a match for the Global Cultural Perspectives.
   • Currently, our students’ average scale scores were generally close to the national means, with higher averages in Cognitive Knowing and Openness to Diversity and Challenge. Currently we see a small impact of study abroad.  Skidmore students also reported lower confidence in scaling up effective actions, getting others to care about a community issue, and expressing their views about the issue before a group. The above three measures from GPI touch to some extent on other parts of the curriculum than GCP (such as Bridge Experience), but overall this might be a signal that some struggle with the “hand” part of “mind and hand,” and may be worth some focus as we work on the revised Goals for Student Learning and Development.
5. Departmental Longform Evaluations: Gameplan & Timeline
   • Ryan emailed IR to ask about how hard it will be to put a set of qualitative questions online.
   • Our goal is to have questions supported and changes approved to the faculty handbook by the end of the year to implement in Fall 2027.
   • We outlined a timeline that will involve a sense of the faculty vote for the December faculty meeting, with simultaneous outreach to stakeholders to get support for the motion.  We will also move forward with working out the questions and the needed changes to faculty handbook language with the goal of presenting a motion to the faculty in April with a final vote in May.