Capital District
Student Affairs Assessment Symposium

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Keynote by  Dr. Andrew Wall

Andrew Wall co-authored the book Assessment Reconsidered: Institutional Effectiveness for Student Success (ICSSIA, 2008), which examines assessment practices in higher education, responding to greater expectations for institutional accountability and increasing assessment capacity to support student learning and success.

Dr. Wall is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester where he teaches courses in organization and governance of higher education, higher education policy, and evaluation in education. Wall's published research can be found in the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Educational Finance, Journal of Policy Futures in Education, Community College Review, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, Journal of Psychology Interdisciplinary and Applied, and Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Wall's remarkable record of accomplishments include receiving the University of Rochester's G. Graydon '58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Nontenured Member of the Faculty and being named a 2008 Emerging Scholar by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).

Wall, who serves as a Young Academic Fellow for the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Lumina Foundation for Education, focuses his research and evaluation projects in the areas of college student health and learning, learning outcomes, state educational finance, and public trust in education. He also brings prior experience directing a statewide higher education evaluation project, working as a social policy researcher and in higher education student affairs.

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