2024-25
Taking assessment to new heights
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs
The 2024 conference was held at The Blackwell on September 20. Check back for information about the 2025 conference.
Assessment Basics, Plenary descriptions
Program Assessment Basics - September 17
11:30 a.m.
During this interactive session, participants learned about the fundamental components of program assessment, design a basic plan for use in their own context, and discussed the benefits of assessment for faculty, staff and students.
Presenters
- Larry Hurtubise, PhD
- Daniel Seward, PhD
Morning Plenary
Assessment of General Education: Where are We Now
Developing and implementing a shared assessment process for any program, especially one as large and decentralized as General Education, requires time and broad collaboration. Presenters shared the process of convening and coordinating stakeholders and experts to date, organizing outreach and data collection, and some of the results and lessons learned.
Meg Daly, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
Alan Kalish, Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education
Closing Plenary
A Panel Discussion of the Transfer Student Quality Initiative
This panel discussed the university’s quality initiative regarding the transfer student experience as part of the 2027 Higher Learning Commission accreditation.
Randy Smith (moderator)
Meg Daly - Evaluation of Transfer Credit
Ann Talbot - Campus Change
Norman Jones and Shanna Jaggers - Degree pathways: IT and Columbus State
Rob Griffiths - Continuing Education
Kia Fletcher - Access issues