Assessment Team

Team Membership

• Eleven-member team: one representative of the Law School; one representative of the Dental School; one representative from each of the colleges/schools (selected by the college/school); one representative from the library; one faculty member selected by the MFA from its members; and two administrative representatives

• Reports to the Vice President for Academic Affairs

Documents

The Assessment Team seeks to collaborate with departments/programs/units to ensure that effective assessment of student learning occurs across the University. To assist in meeting this goal, the team requests that you complete the Assessment Report for your specific program. The form is listed below.

Assessment Report 2010-12 (doc)

Members

Representatives from the Colleges/Schools/Library

Claudia Bernasconi, School of Architecture (term expires 3/2013)

Cindy Gillham, Secretary, Reference Department, McNichols Campus Library (term expires 3/2013)

Nutrena Tate, Co-Chairperson, Nursing, McAuley School of Nursing, College of Health Professions (term expires 3/2013)

Sharla Fasko, Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2014)

Mary Higby, Business Administration, College of Business Administation (term expires 3/2014)

Ioannis Souildatos, Mathematics and Computer Science, College of Engineering & Science (term expires 3/2014)

Laurie Britt-Smith, English, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2013) (MFA)

2 administrative representatives

Lara Wasner, Co-Chairperson,  Director, Foreign Language and Culture (term expires 8/2013)

Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff, Director of Assessment (ex officio)

1 Dental School representative

Diane Hoelscher, Patient Management (term expires 2012)

1 Law School representative

 Tracy Weissman (term expires 2012)

2011-12 Charge

• Continue ongoing activities and strategies related to University wide assessment initiatives.
• Coordinate faculty development activities related to assessment i.e. August faculty assessment workshop.
• Provide recommendations to the AVP for Second Wednesday topics or other appropirate forums.
• Monitor the progress of the Core Curriculum Task Force, and if requested, advise or contribute input concerning assessment strategies for the core curriculum. 

Ongoing Charge

• Develop mechanism for sharing best practices around the university regarding assessment.
• Review the assessment methodologies being used by each school and identify those schools in which assessment activities should be commended, as well as those requiring improvement. 
• Provide ongoing reports to and consultation with the Academic Vice President. Keep the university community informed of committee activities by providing summary minutes of meetings and reports to (sharedgovernance(at)udmercy.edu).  Information will be posted to the shared governance website (udmercy.edu/governance).   The secretary of the committee is responsible for these postings and for informing Campus Connections of new postings. If there is no secretary identified for the committee, a member should be elected who is responsible for this task.

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