Culture of Collaboration
Cultivating a Campus Environment
for Assessment
Queensborough Community College
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Arthur Corradetti, Associate Dean for Accreditation,
Assessment, and Institutional Effectiveness
Margot Edlin, Assistant Professor
Phil Pecorino, Chair, Senate Committee on
Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness
Karen Steele, Vice President for Academic Affairs
Middle States Mandate
Comprehensive, integrated,
and sustained assessment
processes
Why a culture of
collaboration?
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Why not a culture of
assessment?
Why not a culture of
evidence?
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Real assessment is not
possible without, first, a
culture of collaboration.
Real use of evidence is
not possible without a
culture of collaboration
in which effective
change can be discussed
and implemented.
Institutional Investment
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Establishing an Assessment Office with an
associate dean
Establishing two representative task forces
Hiring an outside consultant
Working through shared governance on
adopting official policy on assessment
Expanding Institutional Research office
Assessment Task
Force Membership
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Faculty Assessment Task Force –
representatives from every academic
department
Administrative Assessment Task Force –
representatives from broad array of
administrative offices and across all college
divisions
Assessment Task
Force Charges
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Promulgating comprehensive,
integrated, and sustained assessment
processes
Developing an Assessment Handbook
for campus-wide use
Providing groundwork for Monitoring
Report
Assessment Handbook
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Institutional Effectiveness – broad
context for college-wide assessment
efforts
Faculty assessment of student learning
Administrative assessment of services
in support of student learning
Resources and templates for carrying
out different forms of assessment
A Multifaceted Approach
to Fostering a Culture of
Collaboration
Shared governance
Expanded new faculty orientation and
development
Appointing faculty facilitators to lead
assessment workshops
Shared Governance
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Actions of governance body (Academic
Senate)
Communications to constituencies
Adoption of Academic Senate committee
Creation of Academic Senate committee
on assessment and institutional
effectiveness
Senate Committee
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Formed as a standing committee of
the senate
Representative of broad array of
academic departments
Charged with overview of assessment
processes and reporting to the Senate
each year
New Faculty Orientation
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Clear expectations about the importance of
assessment as an institutionally recognized
component of a culture of collaboration
campus-wide
Year-long new faculty institute – ongoing
faculty development workshops, including
workshops on assessment and the
development and use of rubrics
Faculty Support
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Learning Outcomes Faculty Facilitators
Faculty Fellow
Monitoring Report
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Using Assessment Handbook as context and
evidence of assessment processes
Developing a more robust Assessment Web site
Responding to site team report’s
recommendations item by item
Following up on the institutional response item
by item
Making use of expertise by outside consultant
Culture of Collaboration
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Shared governance
Shared responsibility
Intra- and inter-departmental effort
Effort acknowledged and celebrated