College presidents may recognize that data can improve the quality of their decision-making process, but they often appear to be disconnected from the very resource that would help them do so: their ...

NSSE was administered electronically in spring 2020 to first-year freshmen and seniors. Of 1,274 total respondents, 670 were first-year students and while 604 were seniors. In NSSE 2020, 88% of ...

After the Program Outcomes have been established, the next step and in many ways, the first step in the actual assessment cycle is to identify the learning outcomes that should occur for each course.

The predecessor of the University Council on Learning Outcomes (UCLO) was the Assessment Report Development Committee. This task force of faculty and administrators, appointed by the President of ...

Traditional strategic planning—often in the form of comprehensive five- or 10-year plans—struggles to stay relevant in such a ...

The priorities set forth by President Drake in 2022 include expanding opportunity and excellence (priority 1) and strengthening an inclusive, respectful, and safe community (priority 3). With these ...