Student Learning Assessment Committee

MISSION: 

The purpose of the Student Learning Assessment Committee (SLAC) is to improve academic program (major, minor, certificate, core) assessment of student learning. This will be accomplished by providing assessment guidance and support as well as development and opportunities to share best practices.

CHARGES:

• Provide guidance in the development of student learning outcomes.
• Identify & deploy assessment resources.
• Create opportunities for communicating best practices and experiences across all three schools.
• Be advocates for student learning assessment.
• Provide counsel to departments to help facilitate the submission of required assessment documents.
• Revise, if needed, current documentation and submission procedures to ensure a reasonable balance between required evidence and what is beneficial to the schools and academic departments.

• Develop and adopt an Assessment Cycle that:
  1. Emphasizes the importance of prioritizing student learning outcomes.  Hence, not all student learning outcomes need to be assessed annually.
  2. Recognizes that (a) using the results, (b) making appropriate changes, (c) determining or affirming if student learning has improved as well as (d) conducting the assessment(s) are integral in the assessment of student learning.

Committee memberS:

• Amy Savage—Associate VPAA, Institutional Effectiveness; SLAC Chairperson

• Arindam Mandal—Professor of Economics; Associate Dean, School of Business 

• Britt Haas—Teaching Professor FYS; Co-Director First-Year Seminar

• Susan Lee—Assistant Professor of Sociology and Health Studies; School of Liberal Arts Assessment Coordinator

• Lara Whelan—Associate Professor of English; Director of Core

• Freya Gibbon—Assistant Librarian

• Jesse Karr—Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Interim Department Chair of Nursing; Associate Dean, School of Science

• Joseph McCollum—Professor of Business Analytics and Actuarial Science; School of Business Assessment Coordinator

• Keith Wilhite—Professor of English, Interim Associate Dean of Liberal Arts

• TBD—Director of Institutional Assessment

• Thomas Giarla—Associate Professor of Biology; School of Science Assessment Coordinator