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Assessment, Accreditation and Strategic Planning

Student Learning Assessment Committee (SLAC)

Mission and Purpose

This team of faculty and administrators, having major responsibilities for assessment at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¼Ç¼, serves to make sure that assessment of student learning is appropriately conceptualized and effectively implemented.

SLAC membership includes:

  • Associate Provost
  • Assessment Coordinator
  • Faculty Senate representative
  • Graduate Council representative
  • Council on General Education representative
  • Associate Dean, Teacher Education
  • Associate Dean, CAS
  • Associate Dean, CBT
  • Associate Dean, COFAC
  • Associate Dean, COEHS
  • 1 or 2 Additional Members (if needed to ensure representation from every college)

At °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¼Ç¼, the Student Learning Assessment Committee reflects the cooperative nature of the faculty-administration assessment enterprise.

Within this context, SLAC serves to:

  1. provide institutional oversight of assessment of student learning;
  2. identify issues and concern to be taken to the Faculty Senate, the Graduate Council, the colleges, and departments;
  3. provide support to Faculty Senate, the Graduate Council, colleges, and departments when necessary;
  4. work with necessary administrative offices (e.g., Registrar, IRP, Deans); and
  5. share information about assessment activities in the different areas of the university.