For Council Members
Employees who manage and/or coordinate their department's annual Assessment Plans serve on the Student Affairs Assessment Council. This is a leadership designation and the employee chosen to serve in this role is responsible for coordinating department-level assessment plans. The designated employee also serves as a liaison to Student Affairs Research & Assessment (SARA) for their department.
The responsibilities of the designated council member include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Act as a liaison to the SARA team;
- Attend assessment-related meetings, trainings, and activities;
- Coordinate assessment activities for their department;
- Complete and submit the department assessment report on an annual basis according to SARA's reporting schedule;
- Maintain an assessment calendar for their department.
These resources will help guide you as you work with staff within your area and/or department in building a Culture of Evidence within the Division of Student Affairs.
SARA's Assessment Toolkit provides practical resources to guide staff through the five phases of the assessment cycle.
Below, you will find links to the division's standard set of survey questions. These questions are a collection of pre-written questions designed to gather insights into students' experiences, perceptions, attitudes, and characteristics. The documents below are view only, so you will have to make a copy of them to add them to your Google Drive.
SARA provides all departments with two types of assessment templates. One template is for departmental objectives and outcomes. The second template includes departmental objectives and outcomes, program impact objectives and outcomes, and Divisional Student Leader Initiative (DSLI) objectives and outcomes. The copies of the templates are view only, you will have to make a copy of the template to your Google Drive before editing.
The Division of Student Affairs Assessment Plan Rubric provides a standardized framework for evaluating assessment practices across the division. This rubric specifies high-quality criteria to foster a common understanding of assessment best practices, serving as a valuable tool for SARA to provide ongoing and intentional feedback to departments. We use this rubric to evaluate your assessment planning over the summer and "closing the loop" in late spring/early summer.