Student Success Assessment

Assessment in student affairs has become a common focus of professional conferences, a core element of our vernacular, and an integrated component of day-to-day practices. In Assessment Methods for Student Affairs (Jossey-Bass, 2008), John Schuh claims that assessment has become an “essential” component of student affairs professional practice. The essential nature of assessment emerges in an environment in which student affairs practitioners are regularly called upon to tell the performance stories of their programs.

-NASPA Leadership Exchange, Spring 2009, pg. 10

UAlbany’s Division of Student Success is committed to the systematic gathering of information for the purposes of accountability, program improvement and the enhancement of student learning.

The Office of the Vice President for Student Success provides leadership for assessment across the Division’s thirteen units and supports the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness (IRPE) in its on-going assessment of UAlbany student’s experience while on campus.