Annual Report 2021-2022

Previous year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends

Ikwueze, Chukwudi, Social Sciences (2022, co-Chair)
Kolack, Kevin, Chemistry (2022, Secretary)
Martinez, Manuel, English (2022)
Byrnes, Thomas, Admissions (2023)
Rome, Barbara, Nursing (2023, co-Chair)
Wang, Biao, Math (2023)
Golebiewska, Urszula, Biology (2024, co-Chair)
Rhodd, Renee, Transfer Resource Center (2024)
Ulrich, Mark, Business (2024, Secretary)

Previous year liaisons, designees

Arthur Corradetti (President’s liaison)
TBA (CoC liaison)
TBA (student representatives)
TBA (Steering Committee Designee)
Ian Beckford of CETL often attended and made valuable contributions

Upcoming year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends

Byrnes, Thomas, Admissions (2023)
Rome, Barbara, Nursing (2023, co-Chair)
Wang, Biao, Math (2023)
Golebiewska, Urszula, Biology (2024, co-Chair)
Rhodd, Renee, Transfer Resource Center (2024)
Ulrich, Mark, Business (2024, Secretary)
Lau, Matthew, English (2025)
Pinheiro, Susana, Math (2025)
Wong, Kathryn, College Discovery (2025)

Previous year committee officers

Ikwueze, Chukwudi, Social Sciences (2022, co-Chair)
Kolack, Kevin, Chemistry (2022, Secretary)
Golebiewska, Urszula, Biology (2024, co-Chair)

Upcoming year committee officers

Rome, Barbara, Nursing (2023, co-Chair)
Golebiewska, Urszula, Biology (2024, co-Chair)
Ulrich, Mark, Business (2024, Secretary)

Committee Meeting Dates and times

The Committee regularly meets the same week as the Senate, on Wednesdays at 12:10PM.

In Fall of 2021, the Committee met on September 29, October 13, November 10, and December 8, and in Spring of 2022, the Committee met on February 16, March 9, April 13, and May 11.

List of Bylaws charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items

Bylaws charges:

1. Review and evaluate summary reports describing initiatives to assess student learning from academic departments, academies, and academic programs of the college;

Completed. Specifically, a) the committee reviewed year-end assessment reports of all the teaching departments and developed rubric to assess program reviews.

2. Review and evaluate documents relating to assessments of institutional effectiveness from all non-academic units of the college;

Completed. Specifically the commettee reviewed year-end reports of all the non-teaching depatments.

3. Make annual reports of progress in assessment of data collection

Completed. Reported to the chairs of teaching departments and to the provost.

4. Review and evaluate assessment procedures the College undertakes and make recommendations concerning these assessment initiatives to the Academic Senate, in support of principles of shared governance, academic freedom and transparency.

Completed. Mi-Seon Kim and Chukwudi Ikwueze past and present co-chairs spoke at the Academic Senate meeting.

List of Steering Committee charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items

Charges from the Steering committee:

1. With OAA's help, encourage all academic departments to use revised year-end and assessment report templates; update SC on progress in Annual Report.

Completed: Many academic depatments were already using the updated templates. Co-chairs and secretary attended the chairs meeting and spoke about the new templates and conveyed message that they are easier to use. Chairs were very receptive.

2. Coordinate with non-academic departments to begin assessment; update SC on progress in AR

The effort is ongoing. The topic was raised by co-chairs with the provost. The year-end reports of non-teaching departments were assessed by the committee.

3. With OAA's help, encourage all academic departments to send assessment representatives to an AIE Committee meeting; update SC on progress in AR

During meeting with the academic department chairs co-chairs and secretary of AIE encouraged the chairs to inform the assessment representatives to seek help/suggestions from AIE.

4. With OAA, work to receive missing 2020 year-end reports from academic departments

The co-chairs of AIE met with the provost and discussed the issues with the reports.

Committee recommendations for upcoming year

Recommendation that current and former members of the Committee serve as departmental assessment coordinators.

Individual member contributions and thanks

Chukwudi Ikwueze and Mi- Seon Kim spoke at the first Fall Academic senate meeting about the committee's efforts to promote assessment on campus.

Thomas Byrnes, Urszula Golebiewska, Chukwudi Ikwueze, Kevin Kolack, Manuel Martinez, Rennee Rhodd, Barbara Rome, and Mark Ulrich assessed non-teaching departments.

Thomas Byrnes, Urszula Golebiewska, Chukwudi Ikwueze, Kevin Kolack, Barbara Rome, and Mark Ulrich assessed teaching departments.

Working group Barbara Rome, Arthur Corradetti and Urszula Golebiewska developed the rubric to assess the Program Reviews.

Urszula Golebiewska, Chukwudi Ikwueze and Kevin Kolack attended department chairs' meeting to discuss assessment reports.

Urszula Golebiewska and Chukwudi Ikwueze met with the provost to disscuss challenges with assessing non-teaching and teaching departments.

Thanks to Chukwudi Ikwueze and Kevin Kolack for their leadership as co-chair and secretary.

Thanks to Chukwudi Ikwueze, Kevin Kolack and Manuel Martinez whose terms on the comittee ended.

Respectfully Submitted,

Urszula Golebiewska

co-chair Committee on Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness