Excellence in Assessment Designation

2021 Designees

• 2021 Sustained Excellence Award Designees

  Cameron University

  Cameron University is designated as Sustained Excellence in assessment through the commitment to continuing to improve on an already solid and mature system of assessment. Cameron University is doing an admirable job of involving and developing additional opportunities to incorporate external stakeholders in meaningful ways. Internally, the level of engagement and communication between the Institutional Assessment Committee and programs/units is impressive and a clear strength of Cameron’s assessment process. Additionally, the attention to rewarding faculty for participation in assessment activities formally through promotion and tenure, annual review, and service obligations assists in centering assessment work at Cameron.

  Capella University

  Capella University maintains the Sustained Excellence designation and is
  indeed an exemplar for transparency of outcomes coupled with quality
  teaching and learning processes. Capella’s websites continue to serve as an excellent tool for students, faculty members, and employers by
  communicating and tailoring evidence of student learning to various
  audiences. The assessment plan at the institution-level includes a logic
  model of how learning and change happens over time, meaning there is an
  institutional approach to learning management driven by learning and
  buttressed by accreditation standards. Capella has managed to build
  assessment processes that have become natural and sustained through
  leadership and organizational changes.

  Community College of Baltimore County

  The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) maintains the Sustained Excellence designation by continuing to practice excellence in
  assessment. From communication with partner institutions to varied
  stakeholder engagement across the college to the wide variety of
  committee work, various pieces connect assessment into a scalable
  meaningful process of engagement with student learning at CCBC.
  Additionally, the faculty-initiated, team-based assessment projects as
  well as recognition of assessment activities in the evaluation and
  promotion process for faculty are to be elevated. Given the level of
  maturity and sophisticated assessment infrastructure of CCBC, its
  institutionally tailored processes for assessment planning and evidence
  still allow flexibility for those engaged in the process to revise
  efforts to meet changing student needs.

  IUPUI

  IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) maintains the
  Sustained Excellence designation with a strong narrative reflective of
  the journey to an integrative assessment culture. IUPUI continues to
  expand its understanding and knowledge of ongoing assessment, leaning
  into its strength of providing abundant opportunities for professional
  development both internally and externally, including making significant
  contributions to the field through the Assessment Institute in
  Indianapolis, the oldest and largest U.S. higher education event focused
  on assessment and improvement. There is high engagement of alumni,
  employers, advisory boards, and students in various and connected
  processes of assessment. The leadership, intentionality, and balanced
  approach to assessment across the institution at-large is of the guiding
  ship, or lighthouse quality. IUPUI’s assessment process offers
  institutions of any size a model to consider, emulate, or replicate to a
  scale reasonable for their institution and its mission.

  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology maintains the Sustained Excellence
  designation with an impressive systematic and longstanding process of
  assessment. Rose-Hulman’s view of accomplishment of institutional-level
  assessment, shareable with internal and external stakeholders, is well
  situated with a large number of artifacts (over 2,000!) evaluated
  annually, along with strong stakeholder participation. Accessibility of
  up-to-date, real-time data in dashboards as well as regular discussions
  of assessment data within committee work allows for those at Rose-Hulman
  to know what data are available, where to find it, and how to use it.

• 2021 Excellence Award Designees

  California State University-East Bay

  California State University East Bay’s (CSUEB) narrative highlights
  quality assessment practices at work. CSUEB’s interconnected and dynamic
  processes collectively operate at the course, program, and
  institutional levels to advance improvements in students’ learning
  experiences. CSUEB’s collaborative approach to assessment is
  commendable. CSUEB has a remarkable repository of information on their
  website and the integration of assessment activities makes for an
  efficient process and maximum use of student work and data for
  meaningful institutional self-reflection and improvement.

  Whatcom Community College

  Whatcom Community College has put significant time and effort into
  making assessment a sustainable, integrated, and useful part of their
  institutional practices. Additionally, Whatcom has worked hard to
  develop an organized and sustained effort at involving faculty and
  staff, including adjunct faculty, in assessment planning and
  implementation processes. Whatcom’s assessment and institutional
  research website is rich with evidence of assessment changes which is
  monitored and communicated publicly to stakeholders across the
  institution. Whatcom Community College’s transparent and honest
  evaluation of their practices is refreshing.