Event Presentation Materials

2009 Annual Conference

• Self Study I: Moving from Research to Writing

Presented by Robert A. Schneider, Vice President, MSCHE

• Managing Assessment: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, All-Around (pptx)

Presented by Jodi Levine Laufgraben, Associate Vice Provost and Director, Periodic Program Review, and Stephanie Grace Schull, Coordinator for Undergraduate Assessment, Temple University.

• An Applied Philosophy of Facilities Planning (ppt)

Presented by Robert A. Francis, Vice President for University Facilities, Drexel University

• The Periodic Review Report: Issues and Ideas (ppt)

Presented by Debra G. Klinman and Mary Ellen Petrisko, Vice Presidents, MSCHE

• Self Study II: Countdown to the Team Visit (ppt)

Presented by Debra G. Klinman, Vice President, MSCHE

• Developing an Assessment Consortium (ppt)

Presented by Cheryl Beil, Assistant Vice President for Academic Planning and Institutional Research, and Assessment, and Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, The George Washington University; and Karen Froslid-Jones, Director, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, American University.

• Strategic Planning and Budgeting for Sustainability (ppt)

Presented by Jonathan Gibralter, President, Frostburg State University

• Strategic Alliances: Pearls or Pitfalls (pptx)

Presented by Robert C. Messina, Jr., President, Burlington County College

• Evaluator 101: An Introduction to Serving as a Middle States Evaluator (ppt)

Presented by Luis G. Pedraja, Vice President, MSCHE

• Middle States Follow-up Reporting Expectations-Part I (ppt)

Presented by Mary Ellen Petrisko, Vice President, MSCHE

• Foundations of Excellence: A New Form of Assessment and Action Planning to Improve the Beginning College Experience (pptx)

Presented by John N. Gardner, Executive Director, and Betsy O. Barefoot, Co-Director and Senior Scholar, Policy Center on the First Year of College; Catherine Andersen, Associate Provost for Enrollment, Gallaudet University; and Maureen G. Reustle, Dean, Ocean County College

• Curricular Review (pdf)

Presented by Kimberly Cassidy, Provost, and Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College

• Evaluator 102: Evaluating Your Peers- Strategies and Techniques (ppt)

Presented by Luis G. Pedraja, Vice President, MSCHE

• Middle States Follow-up Reporting Expectations-Part II (ppt)

Presented by Mary Ellen Petrisko, Vice President, MSCHE

• Implementing the Accreditation Provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (ppt)

Presented by Mary Beth Kait, Senior Director for Policy and Planning, and Barbara Samuel Loftus, Vice President, MSCHE

• Advancing Mission in an Economic Crisis: Strategic Management in Times of Economic Uncertainty

Presented by James P. Pellow, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, St. John’s University

Friday, December 11

• Closing Plenary Session: Ready? Dramatic Change and Transcendent Learning (without links) (pdf)

Presented by Mark David Milliron, President and CEO, Catalyze Learning International

• Creating and Sustaining an Academic Program Review Process (ppt)

Presented by Barbara Ward Klein, Dean of Institutional Assessment, St. Thomas Aquinas College

• Strategic Alliances in Higher Education (ppt)

Presented by Sean Fanelli, President, Nassau Community College, and James Brennan, Provost, The Catholic University of America

• Substantive Change Issues for Accreditation Liaison Officers (ppt)

Presented by Luis G. Pedraja, Vice President, MSCHE

• Governance Issues (pptx)

Presented by Michael Middaugh, Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness, University of Delaware, and Chair, MSCHE; and Celine Racine Paquette, Vice Chair, Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission and MSCHE Commissioner

• Understanding Middle States Expectations for Assessment (ppt)

Presented by Linda S. Suskie, Vice President, MSCHE

NOTE: Self Study I: Moving from Research to Writing and Self-Study II: Countdown to the Team Visit, were repeated on Friday, December 11. For copies of those handouts, see the listings for Thursday, December 10.
 

Additional Materials

• Resources on Accreditation Processes (Word)

• Roles and Responsibilities of the Accreditation Liaison Officer (Word)

• Rubric for Evaluating Student Learning Assessment Processes (Word)

• Seminal Readings on Assessing Student Learning (Word)

• Assessment Models and Best Practices (Word)

• Examples of Evidence of Student Learning (Word)

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