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Culture of Collaboration

Culture of Collaboration. Cultivating a Campus Environment for Assessment. Queensborough Community College. Arthur Corradetti, Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment, and Institutional Effectiveness Margot Edlin, Assistant Professor

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Culture of Collaboration

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  1. Culture of Collaboration Cultivating a Campus Environment for Assessment

  2. Queensborough Community College • Arthur Corradetti, Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment, and Institutional Effectiveness • Margot Edlin, Assistant Professor • Phil Pecorino, Chair, Senate Committee on Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness • Karen Steele, Vice President for Academic Affairs

  3. Middle States Mandate Comprehensive, integrated, and sustained assessment processes

  4. Why not a culture of assessment? Why not a culture of evidence? Real assessment is not possible without, first, a culture of collaboration. Real use of evidence is not possible without a culture of collaboration in which effective change can be discussed and implemented. Why a culture of collaboration?

  5. Institutional Investment • Establishing an Assessment Office with an associate dean • Establishing two representative task forces • Hiring an outside consultant • Working through shared governance on adopting official policy on assessment • Expanding Institutional Research office

  6. Assessment TaskForce Membership • Faculty Assessment Task Force – representatives from every academic department • Administrative Assessment Task Force – representatives from broad array of administrative offices and across all college divisions

  7. Assessment TaskForce Charges • Promulgating comprehensive, integrated, and sustained assessment processes • Developing an Assessment Handbook for campus-wide use • Providing groundwork for Monitoring Report

  8. Assessment Handbook • Institutional Effectiveness – broad context for college-wide assessment efforts • Faculty assessment of student learning • Administrative assessment of services in support of student learning • Resources and templates for carrying out different forms of assessment

  9. A Multifaceted Approach to Fostering a Culture of Collaboration Shared governance Expanded new faculty orientation and development Appointing faculty facilitators to lead assessment workshops

  10. Shared Governance • Actions of governance body (Academic Senate) • Communications to constituencies • Adoption of Academic Senate committee • Creation of Academic Senate committee on assessment and institutional effectiveness

  11. Senate Committee • Formed as a standing committee of the senate • Representative of broad array of academic departments • Charged with overview of assessment processes and reporting to the Senate each year

  12. New Faculty Orientation • Clear expectations about the importance of assessment as an institutionally recognized component of a culture of collaboration campus-wide • Year-long new faculty institute – ongoing faculty development workshops, including workshops on assessment and the development and use of rubrics

  13. Faculty Support • Learning Outcomes Faculty Facilitators • Faculty Fellow

  14. Monitoring Report • Using Assessment Handbook as context and evidence of assessment processes • Developing a more robust Assessment Web site • Responding to site team report’s recommendations item by item • Following up on the institutional response item by item • Making use of expertise by outside consultant

  15. Culture of Collaboration • Shared governance • Shared responsibility • Intra- and inter-departmental effort • Effort acknowledged and celebrated

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