Campus Models and Case Studies

The VALUE Institute: Assessment as Transformative Faculty Development
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Figure 1. The Sixteen VALUE Rubrics


Intellectual and Practical Skills

Online Learning with a SOUL: Ensuring Quality and Access at The American Women’s College

Students in the all-women undergraduate program at Bay Path University often talk about the “sisterhood” and the supportive environment fostered by their instructors, administrators, and each other.

Bay Path, a private university in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, has a long history of... Read More

Hamline University
Minnesota Collaborative Builds Campus Cultures of Assessment

In the summer of 2014, representatives from ten Minnesota institutions came together with a singular purpose: to build and strengthen a culture of assessment on their campuses.

These campuses formed the Minnesota Collaborative as an offshoot of the... Read More

St. Cloud State University
Faculty Energize University-Wide Assessment at St. Cloud State

At many colleges and universities, the introduction of a new assessment project is met with something less than enthusiasm by faculty. At St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, however, university involvement in the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment (MSC)—a... Read More

Fitchburg State University and Mount Wachusetts Community College
Collaborating for Transfer Student Success at Mount Wachusett Community College and Fitchburg State University

A positive trend in recent years has been the move by many colleges and universities toward integrated curricula through which students forge connections between general education and the major and develop crucial, cross-cutting capacities progressively from the first to final year of college (... Read More

Santa Clara University
The new Pathways requirement at SCU extends general education into the junior and senior years and asks students to think reflectively about their education.
Encouraging Integrative Learning through Pathways and E-Portfolios at Santa Clara University

When Santa Clara University (SCU) began revising its core curriculum in 2005, it identified integrative learning as a crucial element of the university’s identity and mission. It’s not an uncommon learning goal, and many of the requirements SCU has implemented to engage students in integrative... Read More

Charles and Stella Guttman Community College
Students at the 2013 Summer Bridge Program wear color-coded shirts matched to their "houses"--the learning communities to which they belong throughout their first year at the college.
Assessment for Learning: Building a New Curriculum at Charles and Stella Guttman Community College

Building a college from scratch presents a lot of challenges, but it's also "fantastically freeing to be able to start fresh," says Scott Evenbeck, president of Charles and Stella Guttman Community College. Guttman is the newest community college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system... Read More

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Ivy Tech Community College
IUPUI-Ivy Tech Office of Coordinated Programs
Passport to Transfer: Ivy Tech Community College and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is less than three miles from the Central Indiana campus of Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana's statewide community college system. The two institutions would seem to be natural partners for transfer, but until 1990 IUPUI did not accept... Read More

Salt Lake Community College
SLCC, a large community college with more than a dozen instructional sites, developed collegewide learning outcomes and asks students to demonstrate their mastery of these outcomes in their electronic portfolios.
Signature Assignments Become a Signature Practice at Salt Lake Community College

In David Hubert's political science class at Salt Lake Community College, students analyze campaign finance data and write papers about recent elections in Utah. In Kati Lewis's composition class, students write papers in different genres—such as a position paper, a review, and a memoir—all on... Read More

Texas A&M University
At Texas A&M, faculty members who have had success with assessment help encourage their colleagues. (Photo courtesy Texas A&M)
Taking Assessment University-Wide at Texas A&M

Texas A&M University has a pretty simple philosophy when it comes to assessment: Make it useful, make it flexible, and "play with the people who want to play," says Ryan McLawhon, Texas A&M's assistant director of institutional assessment. While this laid-back approach might seem like an... Read More

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