Considerations to be forwarded to the Institutional Policy and Planning Committee:

Assist faculty in continuing to organize and systematize the assessment process perhaps with a part-time administrator.

Provide many more ways to recognize high quality teaching. Increased enrollment and growth in the number of adjunct faculty have added burdens to an already over-worked full-time faculty.Find ways to lighten their loads.

Build into the end of each semester an Assessment Day, similar to the Study Day for students. On this day, there would be no classes. All faculty would meet to interpret the assessment data they have collected. They would give their results to an assessment coordinator who would look for patterns of growth as well as patterns of student weakness. The Educational Policy and Planning Committee could strategize institution-wide ways to improve learning.

Continue to send faculty to Alverno summer workshops.

Form peer teaching groups of three or four faculty who would observe one another, share teaching strategies, and ways to assess students and one another.

Revive the program review, a mini-self study done within each division every five years.

Provide more classroom space.

Plan for enhanced space for the fine arts courses, performances, and galleries.

Use the Education Division Tk20 model of gathering student data online, as a possible plan for all students

 

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