Culture of Culture of CollaborationCollaboration

Cultivating a Campus Cultivating a Campus Environment for AssessmentEnvironment for Assessment

Queensborough Community Queensborough Community CollegeCollege

Arthur Corradetti, Associate Dean for Arthur Corradetti, Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment, and Institutional Accreditation, Assessment, and Institutional EffectivenessEffectiveness

Margot Edlin, Assistant ProfessorMargot Edlin, Assistant Professor Phil Pecorino, Chair, Senate Committee on Phil Pecorino, Chair, Senate Committee on

Assessment and Institutional EffectivenessAssessment and Institutional Effectiveness Karen Steele, Vice President for Academic Karen Steele, Vice President for Academic

AffairsAffairs

Middle States Middle States MandateMandate

Comprehensive, Comprehensive, integrated, and sustained integrated, and sustained assessment processesassessment processes

Why a culture of Why a culture of collaborationcollaboration??

Why not a culture Why not a culture of of assessmentassessment??

Why not a culture Why not a culture of of evidenceevidence??

Real assessment is Real assessment is not possible without, not possible without, first, a culture of first, a culture of collaboration.collaboration.

Real use of evidence Real use of evidence is not possible is not possible without a culture of without a culture of collaboration in which collaboration in which effective change can effective change can be discussed and be discussed and implemented.implemented.

Institutional Institutional InvestmentInvestment Establishing an Assessment Office with Establishing an Assessment Office with

an associate deanan associate dean Establishing two representative task Establishing two representative task

forcesforces Hiring an outside consultantHiring an outside consultant Working through shared governance Working through shared governance

on adopting official policy on on adopting official policy on assessmentassessment

Expanding Institutional Research officeExpanding Institutional Research office

Assessment TaskAssessment TaskForce MembershipForce Membership Faculty Assessment Task Force – Faculty Assessment Task Force –

representatives from every academic representatives from every academic departmentdepartment

Administrative Assessment Task Force Administrative Assessment Task Force – representatives from broad array of – representatives from broad array of administrative offices and across all administrative offices and across all college divisionscollege divisions

Assessment TaskAssessment TaskForce ChargesForce Charges Promulgating comprehensive, Promulgating comprehensive,

integrated, and sustained integrated, and sustained assessment processesassessment processes

Developing an Assessment Developing an Assessment Handbook for campus-wide useHandbook for campus-wide use

Providing groundwork for Providing groundwork for Monitoring ReportMonitoring Report

Assessment HandbookAssessment Handbook

Institutional Effectiveness – broad Institutional Effectiveness – broad context for college-wide assessment context for college-wide assessment effortsefforts

Faculty assessment of student Faculty assessment of student learninglearning

Administrative assessment of services Administrative assessment of services in support of student learningin support of student learning

Resources and templates for carrying Resources and templates for carrying out different forms of assessmentout different forms of assessment

A Multifaceted A Multifaceted Approach to Fostering a Approach to Fostering a Culture of CollaborationCulture of Collaboration

Shared governanceShared governance

Expanded new faculty orientation Expanded new faculty orientation and developmentand development

Appointing faculty facilitators to Appointing faculty facilitators to lead assessment workshopslead assessment workshops

Shared GovernanceShared Governance

Actions of governance body Actions of governance body (Academic Senate)(Academic Senate)

Communications to constituenciesCommunications to constituencies Adoption of Academic Senate Adoption of Academic Senate

committeecommittee Creation of Academic Senate Creation of Academic Senate

committee on assessment and committee on assessment and institutional effectivenessinstitutional effectiveness

Senate CommitteeSenate Committee

Formed as a standing committee Formed as a standing committee of the senateof the senate

Representative of broad array of Representative of broad array of academic departmentsacademic departments

Charged with overview of Charged with overview of assessment processes and assessment processes and reporting to the Senate each yearreporting to the Senate each year

New Faculty New Faculty OrientationOrientation Clear expectations about the importance Clear expectations about the importance

of assessment as an institutionally of assessment as an institutionally recognized component of a culture of recognized component of a culture of collaboration campus-widecollaboration campus-wide

Year-long new faculty institute – ongoing Year-long new faculty institute – ongoing faculty development workshops, faculty development workshops, including workshops on assessment and including workshops on assessment and the development and use of rubricsthe development and use of rubrics

Faculty SupportFaculty Support

Learning Outcomes Faculty Learning Outcomes Faculty FacilitatorsFacilitators

Faculty FellowFaculty Fellow

Monitoring ReportMonitoring Report

Using Assessment Handbook as context Using Assessment Handbook as context and evidence of assessment processesand evidence of assessment processes

Developing a more robust Assessment Developing a more robust Assessment Web siteWeb site

Responding to site team report’s Responding to site team report’s recommendations item by itemrecommendations item by item

Following up on the institutional response Following up on the institutional response item by itemitem by item

Making use of expertise by outside Making use of expertise by outside consultantconsultant

Culture of Culture of CollaborationCollaboration Shared governanceShared governance Shared responsibilityShared responsibility Intra- and inter-departmental Intra- and inter-departmental

efforteffort Effort acknowledged and Effort acknowledged and

celebratedcelebrated