Here is a brief list of how I, as Director of Academic Initiatives, can be of service to
you in your efforts to advance assessment processes within individual programs:

• Consult with chair / ABET coordinator about program assessment plan

• Brainstorm with chair / faculty about possible “low-stress” assessment methods

• Work with individual faculty or chairs to develop an assessment project for funding through Bush or assessment mini-grant monies

• Suggest how data already produced or assessments already used on campus could support the assessment of program outcomes (e.g., those difficult a – k outcomes!)

• Identify & locate funding for targeted workshop to assist a program

• Run an SGID-style student focus group for program

• Coordinate with the institutional research analyst to prepare assessment data for use and/or distribution

• Help a program to make use of the Digital Archival Tool for assessment to organize the collection of student work artifacts

• Assist in organizing program data for uploading to the program page of the Virtual Assessment Office

• Locate funding for “targeted travel” aimed at promoting assessment processes

• Purchase books, tapes, videos, and other relatively low-cost materials to support efforts to learn more about assessment practices and possibilities

• Invite key people to participate in assessment events

• Attend program or departmental meetings to listen, to present information, or pitch in on assessment planning

• Attend assessment meetings or retreats held by individual programs

• Raise concerns or needs with the assessment committees and/or the VPAA

• Identify functioning models on campus or elsewhere for assessment processes or tools a program is considering for use

• Help demystify assessment jargon or translate descriptions of requirements published by accrediting agencies

Call me at ext 6952 or e-mail me at kate.alley@sdsmt.edu