The Office of Institutional Effectiveness seeks to:

• Support a culture of intellectual curiosity among all faculty, staff and students.
• Facilitate the collection and use of evidence to answer the questions, “How can we achieve what we want to achieve?” and “How well did we achieve it?”
• Promote academic excellence.
• Lead the state, nation and global community in the use and development of planning and evaluation best practices.

RESPECT

We begin our work by listening and by meeting our clients where they are. OIE holds in high regard the diverse knowledge, skills, and abilities that students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and other stakeholders bring to the planning and evaluation process.

COLLABORATION

At its core, ensuring the quality of UA activities and outcomes requires teamwork, dialogue, positivity, and reciprocity. We deeply believe that we are “all in this together” and we bring this orientation (and a bit of chocolate) to what we do.

INTEGRITY

Honesty, fairness and accountability guide our actions, as we seek to deliver information and services that benefit individuals, units, and the institution.

TRANSPARENCY

The process of meeting internal and external goals and requirements can be a complicated one. We strive to provide the UA community with timely and relevant information, and we use multiple modes of communication in our outreach and documentation activities.

EXCELLENCE

OIE is committed to using our collective expertise to deliver quality consultation, support and outcomes to our clients. We celebrate the intellectual curiosity and orientation toward excellence that defines the Capstone, and recognize exemplary institutional effectiveness practices at all levels.

Training & Workshops

OIE offers on-demand, hands-on consultation and/or training sessions for a variety of topics related to the mission of our office. We’re happy to schedule individual and small group sessions on any topics below or for general consultation.

• Consultation/training topics:
  • Program Assessment (general)
  • Writing Outcomes
  • Developing Measures/Rubrics
  • Sharing Data/Results with Colleagues
  • Using Results for Improvement
  • Program Review
  • Specialized Accreditation
  • Taskstream AMS Training (assessment platform)
  • Taskstream LAT Training (ePortfolio platform)
  • Experiential Learning – Designing an ELO
  • New Program Development/Proposals
  • ePortfolios for Teaching/Learning/Assessment
  • Special Evaluation/Rating Project
  • Other topics as requested