Chair:
Heather Stewart, assistant vice president, Finance and Technology

Members:
Dawn Williams, dean, Community Development
Christopher Sharrett, professor, Department of Communication
Maria Gushanas, director, Mathematics and Basic Skills
Mary Alexander, assistant professor, Physical Therapy
Judy Greene, Health and Counseling Services
Beth Bloom, librarian, University Libraries

Charge:

• Address several broad issues and provide closure to the entire self-study report answering the fundamental issue: Does everything that has been described in this report lead to effective student learning?
  
  
• Review the expectations for student learning at all levels and ensure they are clearly articulated and consistent with institutional mission and goals.
• Examine existing plans and measures for assessing whether these expectations are being met.
  
  
• Evaluate the use of assessment to improve teaching and learning and to drive overall institutional assessment.
  
  
• The study group will work closely with the long-standing outcomes assessment team to respond to the following hypotheses:

1. The expectations of student leaning at various levels (institution, degree/program, course) are consistent with the mission and with the standards of higher education of the relevant disciplines.
2. There is an effective plan that identifies student learning assessment activities, including methods to be used to validate articulated student learning goals/objectives.
3. Student learning assessment is routinely used to improve teaching and learning.
4. Student learning assessment information is used as part of the overall institutional assessment.