| The Provost's Assessment Advisory
Committee is an advisory body to the Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs that is charged with ensuring
that University at Albany policies, procedures, and guidelines
regarding assessment-related activities meet internal
needs and external mandates |
Committee Charge: The Advisory Committee's charge
can be broken down into three goals that shape its agenda.
They are: |
Goal 1: Participate in drafting an Institutional
Assessment Plan and periodically review and update
that plan.
Goal 2: Work with the Vice Presidents and
Deans to create organizational structures to implement
and support assessment within each division by:
a.) Prompting units to identify their mission, goals,
and objectives within the framework of the institution's
mission;
b.) Assisting units in determining how to measure
whether their goals and objectives are being achieved
and how to use evaluative measures to improve services
and processes;
c.) Developing linkages between the assessment process
and planning and resource allocation functions; and
d.) Aiding units to document these processes of evaluation
and improvement.
Goal 3: By virtue of Goals 1 and 2, the Provost's
Assessment Advisory Committee will play a significant
role in positioning the University to comply with
the Middle States Commission on Higher Education's
(MSCHE) accreditation standards. This committee is
expected to review the MSCHE Periodic Review Report
due in June 2005, and to play a major role in drafting
the 2010 MSCHE Self-study Report.
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| General Support for Assessment:
Depending heavily upon the Director of Assessment
and the Assistant Vice President for Strategic Planning
and Assessment, the Advisory Committee will be asked
to:
a.) Prepare an inventory of past, present, and future
assessment activities.
b.) Help to identify and disseminate assessment best
practices.
c.) Maintain a website making assessment resources
available to faculty and staff.
d.) Maintain a library of campus assessment documents
to be used in the preparation of summary reports for
Middle States, site visits, and for internal departmental
use.
e.) Assist committee members in organizing and implementing
divisional assessment activities.
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Members
of the Provost's Assessment Advisory Committee
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Minutes of Meetings
October 12, 2004
November 12, 2004
December 10, 2004
February
9, 2005
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Click on the links at left for minutes of the Advisory
Committee's meetings
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