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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.
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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 • Deadline: Fall 2002 • 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 • Deadline: Fall 2002 • Phase One Department Cohorts (6 departments) • Responsibility: Assessment Committee • Deadline: Fall 2002 • Create Assessment Manual • Responsibility: Director of Assessment • Deadline: Fall 2002
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 • Deadline: 2002-2003 Agenda • 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 • Deadline: 2002-2003 Agenda • 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 • Deadline: Fall 2002 • Responsibility: Associate Academic Dean and Newly Formed Committee • Create Web-Based and Paper Based Means to Disseminate Information to all Campus Constituencies • Deadline: Fall 2002 • Responsibility: Associate Academic Dean and Newly Formed Committee