WASC Steering Committee

Dr. Claudia Pinter-Lucke, Co-Chair, AVP, Undergraduate Studies
Dr. John Self, Co-Chair, Academic Senate
Ms. Linda Abelman, Director, Advancement
Dr. Diane Cuneo, Executive Director, Institutional Research Assessment and Planning
Dr. Francis X. Flores, Professor, Chemistry Department
Dr. Douglas Freer, Vice President, Division of Student Affairs
Mr. Darwin Labordo, AVP, Finance and Adminstrative Services
Dr. Steven McCauley, Professor, Physics Department.
Denton B. Mosier, Director of I&IT Support
Ms. Lisa C. Nashua, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Dr. Nancy Page-Fernandez, Co-chair, IGE Department
Ms. Lisa Rotunni, Director, Academic Resources
Dr. Martin Sancho-Madriz, Vice Chair, Academic Senate
Dr. Donald Straney, Dean, College of Science
Ms. Kathy Street , AVP, Enrollment Services
Dr. Dale Turner, Associate Dean, CLASS

Charge for the Steering Committee

The WASC Steering Committee shall

Promote an understanding and appreciation of the WASC accreditation process and its connection to our work as a learning-centered institution.
Encourage the campus community to undertake and support activities that encourage and demonstrate educational effectiveness.
Define the specific goals and outcomes for the accreditation review based on the University’s planning process and issues raised by the Commission during the last institutional review.
Develop a limited number of themes for an in-depth review and engage the campus in a discussion of these themes.
Interpret, clarify, and refine the areas of inquiry and researchable questions for the themes, and the methodology to approach each area for the reports.
Oversee the work of the Capacity and Preparatory Review (C&PR) Subcommittee and the Educational Effectiveness (EE) Subcommittee.
Define timelines and action steps for the completion of the C&PR and EE reports that meet the overall timing of the University's WASC accreditation process.
Engage the campus community in the design, development, and review of the C&PR and EE reports.
Serve as the primary liaisons with the WASC Commission's Review Team.
Coordinate the review process of the WASC Commission’s Preliminary Team Report, assuring that representative university-wide comment is received.
Coordinate the preparation of a formal written statement by Cal Poly Pomona University in response to the final report.