The on-site review committee chair will arrive Sunday for an afternoon meeting that will include the “top brass” of the university to preview the next day’s visit as well as the on-site review following in March. Then it’s time for the game!

Monday, however, it’s back to business, with an early meeting to familiarize the visiting chair with the tools we’ve used locally to develop our reports and web presence. Then it’s on to meetings with each of the major component groups, including student affairs, business affairs, academic associate deans (curriculum), etc. The goal here is to give the visiting chair a chance to lay out his expectations for the visit and get to know the key players - and for the key players to field a few questions about what they should continue to do in final preparation for the visit.

For example, should we put together a war room - or should we keep pushing everything to the web? Should we plan to put together student focus groups about the QEP - or should we just wait and gather a few folks at the last minute? You know–nuts and bolts things.

The nice thing is that it will be nice to put a real face on this process at last.

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