Assessment Committee

3.3.3.5 Assessment Committee

1. Membership: Voting members will consist of seven (7) Faculty/Staff (appointed by Faculty Senate, with two from each College and one from the Fourth Division). Ex-officio, non-voting members will consist of the Provost and Vice Chancellor (or representative), the Director of Institutional Research, and one representative from each Academic Dean’s office.Term of Office: Three years for each faculty, one-third to be appointed each year.
2. Duties:
   1. to examine the University's assessment effort in light of the select mission and nature of UWRF
   2. to propose changes in the assessment effort to the Faculty Senate, when necessary
   3. to provide Faculty input into University reports on assessment via engagement with relevant administrative committees.
   4. to recommend a process for program level assessment of UWRF General Education and University Requirement learning outcomes/goals that aligns with the UWRF Assessment Policies. The recommendation will include instruments, methods, timetable, technology needs, and overall design. Recommendations will be submitted to the Academic Program and Policy (AP&P) Committee that will approve or disapprove the process. 
   5. to act as a resource on academic assessment; the Assessment Committee will work with academic programs to provide guidance on the form and structure of their assessment plans and assessment reports.
   6. to approve the original and revised academic program assessment plans [FS 08/09 #67]
   7. to monitor assessment activities; as part of the revolving 3 year cycle for Program Prioritization Audit and review process. For programs under review, the committee will review each program’s current assessment plan and current assessment report using the evaluation rubrics adopted by the Senate [Chapter 3, Section 4].
   8. As needed, to provide additional information to the submitting programs related to the committee’s observations or to share these with the programs submitting in the next year.