General Education

Assessment of the General Education core competencies is essentially program level assessment, but it requires collaboration of faculty across the campus. Thus, in general education, both cross-disciplinary groups of faculty and groups of faculty within their own departments, schools, and colleges collaboratively plan and carry out assessment focused on: (1) evaluation of student achievement of general education core competencies, (2) improving general education objectives, courses, and curricula within and between colleges, and (3) improving general education student learning across the university. Assessments are performance-based and iterative, eventually providing cross-campus data on general education student learning to all departments, programs, schools, and colleges, and ultimately, to the university’s various constituencies through the institutional portfolio.