Recommended Procedures

Assessment activities should be integrated with campus operations in a manner that adds value by promoting planning and goal-setting and by communicating results to constituents. Accomplishing these objectives will be aided by the following procedures:

1. As soon as possible each academic year, the appropriate Dean or Director should inform departments and programs of their status in the review and assessment reporting cycle.

2. Each department, in consultation with the appropriate Dean or Director, should appoint an assessment coordinator and/or assessment committee. The coordinator would have responsibility for creating and implementing the assessment plan and gathering, summarizing, and reporting assessment results. The coordinator/committee should consult a wide constituency, including department faculty, staff, and students as well as the appropriate university administrators, when dealing with assessment matters. Though an individual or committee may coordinate programmatic assessment efforts, the department or programmatic committee will formally approve the assessment plans and reports for which it is responsible.

3. The SLOAC will be a resource for departments and programs and SLOAC members will meet with departments/programs as they work on assessment issues. Programmatic assessment coordinators should feel free to contact members of the SLOAC for help and assistance in working on assessment.

4. Members of SLOAC should seek a variety of ways to educate the MSUM community about assessment and provide information about the assessment reporting cycle. These methods may include workshops, open forums, college or department meetings, newsletters, listservs, etc.

5. Department representatives will meet with the SLOAC when their plan is discussed. The SLOAC will vote to accept or reject the plan and communicate any comments or suggestions to the department and Dean or Director.

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