SLOs Committee Purpose:

1. The Committee shall provide guidance for developing and maintaining processes essential to articulating student learning outcomes and assessing student learning across the campus and across the curriculum, including programs accredited by external agencies.
2. The Committee shall establish and monitor a 3-year cycle for conducting assessments of academic programs, offer guidance in integrating assessment into the fabric of academic programs (including development appropriate content for the SDSU Curriculum Guide), and implement an online assessment system that supports ongoing assessment across the university.
3. The Committee shall communicate to all assessment coordinators the need to integrate annual assessment activity with the academic planning process.  To this end, assessment activity undertaken by a degree or program during an academic year shall be entered into the online assessment system, and also included (verbatim) in the annual Academic Plan submitted to the Provost. 

Membership (13):

9 faculty, one from each College, the University Library, and the Imperial Valley Campus; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies; Assoc. V.P. Student Affairs; two students.

Members:

• CAL (1):   Elizabeth Pollard epollard@mail.sdsu.edu
• CAL (2):   TBD
• CBA: Kathleen Krentler kkrentle@mail.sdsu.edu
• COE: Nina Potter npotter@mail.sdsu.edu
• COS: Kathy Williams kwilliam@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
• ENG: Santosh Nagaraj snagaraj@mail.sdsu.edu
• HHS: Olita Harris oharris@mail.sdsu.edu
• PSFA: Susan Levy slevy@mail.sdsu.edu
• Library:   Pamela Jackson pjackson@rohan.sdsu.edu
• Student Affairs:     Reynaldo Monzon rimonzon@mail.sdsu.edu
• IVC Campus:  Barry Stampfl bstampfl@mail.sdsu.edu

Assessment Workshops:  

As you know, the University Assessment Committee this year is collecting from each department/program its mission statement, program goals, and associated student learning outcomes.  To that end, I’d like to invite you to consider attending the CTL events this Spring that are geared towards helping departments/programs design this apparatus.   The idea with these events is that they will give hands-on help with designing (or refreshing) each of these items.  The events are as follows:

1) Friday, March 18, “Mission Impossible: Writing Department Mission Statements that are Ready for the Real World” at the Faculty Staff Club, 1130-1250 (with optional discussion-workshop 1-150), RSVP at ctl.sdsu.edu/events  (limited space, reserve early).

2) Friday, April 22, “Writing Learning Goals for Academic Programs” at the Faculty Staff Club, 1130-1250 (with optional discussion-workshop 1-150), RSVP at ctl.sdsu.edu/events (limited space, reserve early).

3) Wednesday, May 25, the Assessment Track at the “Day in May” (more info to follow).