| Target Audience: |
This workshop targets those who have responsibility for
ensuring institutional effectiveness within constituent
institutions. Emphasis will be on developing and documenting
effective planning, budgeting, and decision-making processes
that are based on evidence, especially evidence concerning
student learning. |
Expected Learning
Outcomes:
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Participants will gain background knowledge and hands-on
ability to
• Design an appropriate institutional model for beginning
an institutional effectiveness initiative
• Develop guidelines for mission-centered decision-making
processes
• Define planning and budgeting processes consistent
with regional accreditation standards
• Align program- and service-level outcomes, assessments,
and improvements with an integrated process of institutional
effectiveness;
• Document processes that show consistent and institution-wide
commitment to using assessment results for improvement at
all levels.
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Dr. J. Joseph Hoey, IV is Vice President for Institutional
Effectiveness at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
His responsibilities include regional and specialized
accreditation, assessment of student learning, institutional
research, quality assurance and accountability reporting,
and academic program review.
Dr. Hoey is Past President of the Southern Association
for Institutional Research, chair-elect of the Professional
Development Services Committee for the Association for
Institutional Research, and is a frequent speaker and
presenter on assessment, evaluation, and accreditation
issues at regional and national conferences. Dr. Hoey
has served as a workshop presenter since 1999 for the
SACS annual conference, serves on accreditation reaffirmation
teams for SACS and WASC, and has served as an invited
presenter at the SACS Summer Institute. His background
includes eight years as the founding director of the Office
of Assessment at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
a prior five years in University Planning and Analysis
at NC State University, and seven years in the North Carolina
Community College System. His published research encompasses
assessment of engineering programs, graduate program assessment,
academic program review, building trust in assessment
processes, alumni and employer feedback, validating student
engagement research, community college transfer, and evaluation
of online academic programs.
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