Academic Assessment Council
2024/2025 Membership
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Gregory Bruess | Associate Dean, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences | gregory.bruess@uni.edu |
| Maureen Clayton | Associate Dean, College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences | maureen.clayton@uni.edu |
| Mary Connerley | Associate Dean, Wilson College of Business | mary.connerley@uni.edu |
| Shoshanna Coon | Associate Dean, College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences | shoshanna.coon@uni.edu |
| Karen Cunningham | Associate Dean and Director, Online Education and Individual Studies | karen.cunningham@uni.edu |
| Donald Gaff | Assessment Coordinator, UNIFI, Assessment Fellow, Associate Professor | donald.gaff@uni.edu |
| Elena Dodge | Assessment Specialist, Wilson College of Business | elena.dodge@uni.edu |
| Kristin Moser (co-chair) | Director, Institutional Effectiveness & Planning | kristin.moser@uni.edu |
| John Ophus (co-chair) | Interim Executive Director, Office of Undergraduate Studies | john.ophus@uni.edu |
| Mandie Sanderman | Assistant Dean, Assessment and Clinical Experiences | amanda.sanderman@uni.edu |
Summary of Recent Activities
- 2024-2025
- Hired Assessment Fellow for Program Assessment
- Program Assessment records updated
- General Education survey of Faculty and AdvisorsGeneral Education Committee undertakes revision of rubrics and assessment plan
- Program and General Education data prepared for HLC
- 2023-2024
- General Education survey of Department Heads
- Created syllabi statements for General Education SLOs
- Collected second round of SLO artifacts for General Education
- Held seven workshops and assessed SLOs 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10 and 12 for General Education
- 2022-2023
- Hired Assessment Coordinator for General Education
- Collected and checked syllabi for General Education SLO's
- Collected first round of SLO artifacts for General Education
- Held four workshops and assessed SLO's 1, 6, 8 and 11 for General Education
- 2021-2022
- Established the Position of Assessment Coordinator of General Education
- Developed assessment rubrics for General Education SLO's
- 2020-2021
- Compiled 5-year Assessment Executive Summary
- Offered Programs a COVID-19 Assessment Waiver
- 2019-2020
- Conducted assessment retreat with CHAS
- Department of Technology assessment retreat
- College Associate Deans met with all departments to review assessment reports
- 2018-2019
- "Closing the Loop" Workshop with the College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences and the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
- "Closing the Loop" Workshop with the College of Education
- College of Education Faculty Retreat- Assessment Presentation
- New assessment archives created
- Assessment Consult with the College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction Department
- “Just-in-Time” Assessment Consultations
- “Assestivus 2018”: Assessment Council retreat to evaluate assessment reports and provide feedback to departments (included the Provost and Deans
- 2017-2018
- “Provost's Assessment Workshop” with the College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences and the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
- “Provost's Assessment Workshop” with the College of Education
- “Curriculum Alignment and Assessment” workshop
- Assessment consultations with departments
- “Assestivus 2017”: Assessment Council retreat to evaluate assessment reports and provide feedback to departments
- 2016-2017
- Presented assessment update to department heads
- Met individually with programs to discuss assessment activities (in presence of Associate Dean(s) and Dean)
- “Assestivus 2016”: Assessment Council retreat to evaluate assessment reports and provide feedback to departments
- “Curriculum Alignment and Assessment” workshop
- "State of Assessment" report shared with Dean's Council
- 2015-2016
- Aligned UNI assessment expectations with HLC expectations
- Created rubric to communicate expectations
- “Assestivus 2015”: Assessment Council retreat to evaluate assessment reports and provide feedback to departments
- "State of Assessment" report shared with Dean's Council
- Developed a new assessment report template to align with revised expectations
- Established University Assessment Council
- Assessment Council attended IU-PUI Annual Assessment Conference