Mission

The Office of Institutional Assessment (OIA) is organized to support the college mission of offering an enriching campus community and achieving academic excellence through the integration of teaching, learning, scholarship, and service. The OIA serves as an assessment resource for academic programs and non-academic units to escalate institutional effectiveness. The OIA primarily functions to facilitate, support, and enhance institution-wide assessment.

Goals

•  Provide leadership in college-wide assessment activities.

•  Support college and program accreditation-related activities.

•  Partner with faculty in student learning outcome development, assessment design and program improvement.

•  Coordinate assessment in Integrative Studies Programs (ISP).

•  Participate in academic strategic planning.

•  Facilitate assessment workshops and trainings.

•  Promote best practices in assessment at different levels.

•  Administer assessment management systems.

•  Offer data support for assessment activities.

Core Values

The Office of Institutional Assessment embraces the core values as follows:

•  Efficiency – We provide assessment service in a timely manner.

•  Effectiveness – We advocate for effective methods of assessment.

•  Integrity – We maintain high integrity in our assessment activities and data analyses.

•  Collegiality – We value collaborative working relationships.

•  Excellence – We seek excellence by promoting ourselves as a learning community.