augustana’s five year goals to create a campus climate that fosters student learning through...

Augustana’s Five Year Goals

• To Create a Campus Climate that Fosters Student Learning through Effective Assessment

• To Articulate Learning Objectives for All Campus Programs

• To Position the College Firmly Within Level 2 Progressing Toward Level 3

Six Assessment Goals

• Identify Measurable Learning Outcomes• Provide Faculty Support for Assessment Tools and

Program Design• Articulate Integration of Assessment and Decision

making• Integrate Students into the Assessment Process• Identify areas of Excellence that distinguish

Augustana College• Coordinate Institutional Research

Goal One: Identify Measurable Learning Outcomes

• Departmental Major Learning Outcomes– Responsibility: Department Chairs/Individual Faculty

– Deadline: Spring 2003

• Departmental Curricular Mapping– Responsibility: Department Chairs/Individual Faculty

– Deadline: Fall 2003

• General Education Learning Outcomes– Responsibility: Director in conjunction with Curriculum Council

– Deadline: If no General Education Revision, Spring 2003

• Align Outcomes with Mission and Values Statements– Responsibility: Curriculum Council, Faculty, Student Association

– Deadline: Established following previous tasks.

Provide Faculty Support for Assessment Tools and Program Design

• Create Director of Assessment Position

– Completed

• Establish Adequate Assessment Budget

– In Progress

• Create Assessment Web Page and Newsletter


– Responsibility: Assoc. Dean and Director

• Faculty Development Conference with Peggy Maki

– Fall 2002

• Re-vitalize Assessment Committee

– Responsibility: CAO and Director of Assessment

– Deadline: Summer 2002

Provide Faculty Support for Assessment Tools and Program Design

• Create on-campus mentorship program (Individual and Community Events)

– Responsibility: Assessment Committee


• Phase One Department Cohorts (6 departments)

– Responsibility: Assessment Committee


• Create Assessment Manual

– Responsibility: Director of Assessment


Articulate Integration of Assessment and Decision making

• Propose reworking of Promotion and Tenure Guidelines using the language of Learning rather the language of Teaching

– Deadline Fall 2002

– Responsibility: CAO and Personnel Council

• Study means to integrate assessment data into budgetary process

– Deadline: 2003-2004 Budget Cycle

– Responsibility: CAO

• Propose Integration of Student Learning objectives and assessment data into Curriculum Change Rationales

– Deadline: 2002-2003 Agenda

– Responsibility: Curriculum Council

Articulate Integration of Assessment and Decision making

• Propose Integration of Student Learning Objectives and Assessment Data into Internal Faculty Development Grants


– Faculty Growth Committees

Integrate Students into the Assessment Process

• Study feasibility of placing student representatives on Assessment Committee

– Deadline: 2002-2003 Academic Year

– Responsibility: Augustana Student Association, Committee on Committees, Assessment Committee

• Encourage Departments to include students when articulating Learning Outcomes

• Study feasibility of focus groups to articulate General Education Learning Outcomes


– Responsibility: Director of General Education and Curriculum Council

Integrate Students into the Assessment Process

• Study Feasibility of Adopting an Assessment Day

– Deadline: 2004-2005 Academic Year

– Responsibility: CAO, Director of Assessment, Augustana Student Association, Registrar

• Articulate Student Learning Objectives and Value of Assessment into the 2004-2006 College Catalog

Identify areas of Excellence that distinguish Augustana College

• Use Assessment Data and Articulation of Learning Objectives to Define Areas for Marketing Purposes

– Deadlines: 2004-2005 Academic Year

– Responsibility: CAO and Assessment Committee

Coordinate Institutional Research

• Coordinate Research Conducted by Academic Affairs, Advancement, IR Office, Admissions and Student Services


– Responsibility: Associate Academic Dean and Newly Formed Committee

• Create Web-Based and Paper Based Means to Disseminate Information to all Campus Constituencies


– Responsibility: Associate Academic Dean and Newly Formed Committee

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