Institutional Effectiveness Goals & Outcomes

Accreditation/External Reporting Goal and Outcomes

Guide and support institutional efforts to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, processes, and reporting set by regulatory and accrediting bodies.

  • Maintain compliance with accreditation standards for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and specialized accreditation bodies
  • Coordinate and collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure timely and compliant reporting on the Performance Management Process (PMP) and other University requirements
  • Ensure timely and compliant, mandatory and voluntary reporting to federal, state, and national agencies and organizations.
  • Assist primary investigators and their teams in the demonstration of compliance with grant reporting and evaluation requirements and support internal stakeholders in the grant operationalization process.

Assessment Goal and Outcomes 

Guide and support effective assessment processes that are focused on fostering academic quality, promoting student success and advancing operational effectiveness.

  • Support academic programs and AES units in annual assessment and program/ unit review processes.
  • Collaborate with the campus community to facilitate a quality assessment infrastructure that is meaningful, manageable, and sustainable. 
  • Coordinate the collection and distribution of institutional and programmatic assessment data.

Institutional Research Goals and Outcomes

  1. Timely and accurate reporting to enhance student success efforts and initiatives, support the work of faculty and staff, improve organizational effectiveness and operations, and documenting compliance, benchmarking, and comparative studies.

    Strengthen the College’s integrated data visualization processes to support data collection, analysis, research, assessment, planning, and reporting

    Effectively leverage the survey platform to expand opportunities for data collection and information gathering at the College, division, department, and unit level

    Communicate and encourage the utilization of mandatory and voluntary external facing best practice and benchmarking reports to improve student success and operational effectiveness (i.e. Common Data Set, Fact Book, NSSE, COACHE, College Board, U.S. News)

  2. Elevate the College’s culture of evidence and information based decision-making and planning by facilitating and supporting inter-college collaboration designed to achieve the College’s mission, goals, and vision.

    Continuously refine the IES website to provide self-service access to data and information, relevant and targeted institutional reports, and resources that promote best practices around institutional research and data analytics

    Engage faculty, staff, and students in conversation and activities around effective research methodology, data collection and analysis, and reporting through consultation and support

    Ensure the standardization and effective utilization of data and information, reporting, and institutional metrics in collaboration with data stewards throughout the College