State Higher Education System-wide Assessment

Give Students a Compass: College Learning, General Education and Student Success is a multi-state collaborative to re-map educational aims, educational practices, and assessment strategies for general education in three public state systems: the California State University System and the state higher education systems of Oregon and Wisconsin. 

The project is part of AAC&U’s signature initiative, Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), which fosters campus action, public advocacy, and useful evidence to make the aims and outcomes of liberal education a guiding framework for all students’ educational achievement—in professional and arts and sciences fields alike.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) asks campuses to define, foster, assess, and report on student achievement of six important outcomes.  “Reports of Institutional Effectiveness” are posted on the SCHEV Website by each institution.  Many reports contain definitions, rubrics, explanations of processes and interpretations of data – all of which can be of interest to campuses interested in further developing their local institutional or departmental practices.