University Assessment Committee

COMMITTEE CHARGE:

University Assessment Committee is charged to support academic and co-curricular units in the assessment of student learning by (a) developing shared expectations, processes, and procedures in consultation and collaboration with the units involved and (b) providing constructive feedback to those units and their leadership to help assessment processes better support decisions affecting the quality of the students’ educational experience.

This involves:

• Implementing the university’s policy requiring assessment in in all curricular programs that result in a degree or certificate and in those co-curricular programs that complement curricular learning outcomes. 
  • Defining and maintaining minimum university standards for the necessary components of assessment practice,
  • Establishing the scope of assessment expectations (i.e., which co-curricular programs or activities must participate)
  • Collecting and provide constructive feedback on unit level assessment reports
• Reporting to the Provost and the Deans on the state of assessment, with particular attention to the utilization of assessment in unit-level planning and budgeting
• Supporting units in establishing or improving assessment practices by:
  • Building a robust repository of best practices, models, and templates for institutional use
  • Providing individual consultations with units as needed
  • Curating programmatic learning goals and connecting programs with similar learning goals towards streamlining assessment

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: