This inaugural MSCHE Symposium sponsored by the CUNY MSCHE Council will provide valuable insight from MSCHE Executives, CUNY leadership and institutions for working with the Standards, engaging internal stakeholder groups, and providing a heightened awareness of the importance of institutional effectiveness.

Date and Time: April 12th, 2019 from 8:30 AM to 4 PM
Location: John Jay College New Building, Room NB 264

RSVP by March 29th, 2019 (http://air.citytech.cuny.edu/rsvp/)

The Faculty Assessment Leadership Award recognizes a faculty member who has provided extraordinary leadership contributions with respect to assessment (e.g., committee work, accreditation efforts, service in the department) that advance the excellence of their department or degree program, and who exemplifies the College’s commitment to assessment as a tool to improve student outcomes. This year-long award honors faculty for their professional service that has supported the assessment system within their program, department and/or the College. The recipient will be granted $1,000 for professional travel during the 2018-19 academic year in support of his/her recognized leadership.

Responsibility

The awardee will plan and offer faculty development activities in consultation with the Office of Assessment, Institutional Research and Effectiveness (AIRE) and the Faculty Commons at City Tech during their tenure. These activities may include, but are not limited to, offering seminars or workshops on topics regarding assessment as a high impact practice (Kuh, 2008; Cumming & Miller, 2017).

Application Deadline

November 5– Deadline for nominations/self-nominations

Eligibility

• Full-time faculty at all ranks and lecturers with a Certificate of Continuous Employment (CCE)
• Provided committed service of significant value with respect to assessment

Evaluation Criteria

• Demonstration of the candidate’s strong commitment to assessment to improve student outcomes
• Demonstrated ability of the candidate to engage in assessment activities on several levels – critical course, program-level, and/or general education assessment
• Demonstrated commitment to advancing or promoting assessment within their department or program
• Strong leadership skills that aid faculty in understanding the value of assessment for learning

Nominations

• Candidates may be nominated by a department chair and by self-nomination.
• Nomination packets must include all materials described below.

Attachments

Attachment A: Faculty Leadership Award Nomination Cover Sheet

Submission

Nominations must be submitted using the online form (Nomination Submission) by November 5, 2018.

Selection

Nominations will be reviewed by the Assessment Leadership Award Committee.  Recipient(s) and their nominator(s) will be notified by November 9th. Awards are presented at a Celebratory Luncheon in the Janet Lefler Dining Room on November 16th.

Assistance

For more information about Faculty Assessment Leadership Award contact Tammie Cumming in the Office of Assessment, Institutional Research and Effectiveness at tcumming@citytech.cuny.edu or (718) 260-5696.

About the Workshop

Administrative and Educational Support (AES) units are part of the foundation for institutional effectiveness and assessment. This workshop is designed to help CUNY Colleges expand their AES assessments and evaluation in alignment with a comprehensive institutional effectiveness process.

• Date and Time: May 11, 2018, 9 am to 3 pm
• Location: BMCC, Room-TBD

Learning Outcomes

• Define institutional effectiveness within the unit’s institutional context
• Describe the role of administrative, educational, and student support services (AES) units in student learning and support of the environment for student learning
• Develop effective and well-aligned AES unit missions, goals, and outcomes
• Compare methods of assessment for AES units

Facilitators

• Dr. Tammie Cumming, City Tech
• Dr. Christopher Shults, BMCC

Agenda

• 9:00 A.M.  -9:30 A.M.             Registration/Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 A.M. – 12:00 noon           Workshop
• 12:00 noon – 1:00 P.M.            Lunch
• 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.              Workshop Concludes

City Tech congratulates Dr. Tammie Cumming, director of the College’s Office of Assessment and Institutional Research, on the publication of her book, Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education​: Putting Psychometrics to Work, (Stylus Publishing), co-published with the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), co-edited with M. David Miller, and Foreword by Michael J. Kolen.

Assessment and accountability are now inescapable features of the landscape of higher education, and ensuring that these assessments are psychometrically sound has become a high priority for accrediting agencies and, therefore, also for higher education institutions.

“My work with assessment of learning at City Tech has been inspired by the faculty commitment to quality assessments. They have worked hard to ensure the assessment process considers the important concepts of reliability, validity and fairness. It is very exciting—and rewarding—to have the opportunity to work with such talented faculty devoted to utilizing the data to improve student outcomes and help City Tech students reach their educational goals,” said Cumming.

Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education​ is guided by the core purpose of assessment—to provide faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals with the information they need to increase student learning by making changes in policies, curricula, and other programs. It provides valuable tools and approaches for assessing student learning outcomes in higher education. The book is divided into three sections: overview, assessment in higher education, and case studies, and includes a glossary of key terms in the field.

Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education has already earned the endorsement of leaders in the assessment field:

“Good decision making at every level – classroom, program, institution – is advantaged by high quality, actionable data. The stellar cast of contributors to this timely volume offer a treasure trove of measurement principles, practices and applications that both assessment experts and those new to documenting student learning will find instructive and useful,” said George D. Kuh,Chancellor’s Professor of Higher Education Emeritus, Indiana University.

“Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education is a unique collection that marries contextually situated treatments of higher education assessment with in-depth examinations of reliability and validity. Cumming and Miller have assembled a valuable resource for both assessment practice and graduate training,” said Alexander C. McCormick, Director, National Survey of Student Engagement, and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.

“Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education is a valuable addition to assessment practitioners’ bookshelves, especially for those who want a deeper understanding of the vocabulary and methods for evaluating the validity and reliability of their assessments of student learning,”  said Linda Suskie, Assessment and Accreditation Consultant.

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