OVERCOMING INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY: ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF A SUSTAINABLE INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM

| 2013 SACSCOC Annual Meeting | December 7-10, 2013 | M302, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis | |

General Discussion Areas

Moving from episodic to ongoing assessment Faculty ownership of and participation in this process

1. The Burden of History

What examples can you share of institutional inertia or prejudice affecting your assessment processes?

2. The Problems of Episodic Processes

What examples can you share of the problems with episodic assessment?
Needing to reinvent processes Making square pegs fit round holes The inability to articulate the core values of Administration and faculty turnover, leading to a your institution loss of institutional memory Performing actions which are driven by deadlines; jumping from crisis to crisis

3. Faculty Disengagement
What examples can you share of external pressures affecting faculty engagement with the assessment process?
Increased teaching Loads: "Big is the new normal" Continual discounting of service Activities Increased research responsibilities No reward for participation in assessment

What examples can you share of faculty or administrators who misunderstand the process?
Yet one more thing "imposed from above" "No one will look at these numbers" Producing numbers to justify one's existence

What examples can you share of the common complaints about assessment on your campus?
Why aren't course grades enough? You're reducing an art to a spreadsheet. Come see me teach!

4. Success Stories
What examples can you share of techniques which have successfully addressed the issues above?
Web-based archeology of memory Rebranding "Assessment" It's a right, not a responsibility You're already doing it Leveraging existing processes/strategies/reports

Facilitators
Dr. John O'Malley Interim Associate Dean College of Engineering and Information Technology Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA jomalley@georgiasouthern.edu Dr. Joe Pellegrino Associate Professor Department of Literature and Philosophy Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA jpellegrino@georgiasouthern.edu