UNIVERSITY
ASSESSMENT PANEL
Notes from Meeting of
20 November 2009
The fourth meeting of the University Assessment
Panel (UAP) was held on Friday, 20 November 2009, at 10:00 a.m. in Altgeld 203.
Status Reports from College
of Business
The reports on the B.S.
in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, B.S. in
Accountancy, Master of Accounting Science, Master of Science in Taxation, B.S.
in Finance, B.S. in Management, B.S. in Marketing, B.S. in Operations and
Information Management, and M.S. in Management Information Systems were
reviewed.
It was noted that
course-embedded assessment is occurring regularly across the college in its
assessment plans and practices, a development that the UAP encourages. The
reports from the accountancy programs and the management program were held up
as models of the kind of assessment practices and reports that the UAP is
striving to establish as a standard across campus.
Funding for assessment
was requested by three of the programs. A grant of $625 was approved for the
B.S. in Business Administration to administer the ETS Major Field Exam as a
pilot project, with a change in date to spring of 2010, since funds need to be
expended in the current fiscal year. The request for the B.S. in Management project
for review of student papers was not granted at this meeting, but may be
reconsidered if more specific information on evaluation rubrics and sources of
papers is supplied. The request for survey funding for the B.S. in Operations
Management was not supported.
Funding Request
Off-Campus &
Non-Traditional Student Services is conducting an internal and external review
of its programs during the 2009–2010 academic year. Non-academic units such as
these have historically been encouraged to invite outside experts to evaluate
their programs. This particular unit is both new and small, and a sum of $2,250
was requested for one person to come to campus for this evaluation in the
spring of 2010. The funding was approved by the panel.
The meeting was adjourned
at 12:00 p.m. The next meeting is scheduled for 4 December 2009 from 10:00–12:00
in Lowden 304.
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