Faculty Senate
Academic Assessment Liaisons
Updates from the meetings of the academic assessment liaisons are posted below. Contact the chair of the Academic Assessment Committee if you have questions.
Duties
- Coordinate program assessment discussions with faculty, staff, students, and others as applicable.
- Attend liaison information sessions.
- Collaborate with administrators and other faculty at the program, unit, and campus levels when applicable.
- Ensure programs receive feedback on their assessment.
- Meet with the Chair to keep them apprised of university/college assessment policies, practices, and activities.
- Identify and share institutionally effective assessment practices.
- Provide consistency and clarity to program student learning goals and outcomes as listed in catalog and in program assessment reports.
- Provide feedback and communicate back to the department about Spring Assessment Day.
Assessment Liaisons for 2022-2023
- Director of Institutional Assessment (Co-chair) - Nathan Anderson
- Chair of the Academic Assessment Committee (Co-chair) - Kateri Miller
- Accounting and Finance faculty member - Nicole Wald
- Addiction Studies, Psychology, and Social Work faculty member - Kali Heyen
- Art and Professional Communication faculty member - Micah Bloom
- Biology faculty member - Rachel Shomaker
- Business Administration faculty member - Andy Bertsch
- Business Information Technology faculty member - Serena Pontenila
- Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty member - Kara Nunziato
- Criminal Justice faculty member -
- Honors faculty member - Jessica Smestad
- Mathematics & Computer Science faculty member - Daren Erisman
- Performing Arts faculty member - Kateri Miller
- Nursing faculty member - Jaci Reep-Jarmin
- Science faculty member - Genevieve Kahrilas
- Social Science faculty member - Mark Singer
- Special Education faculty member - Holly Pedersen
- Teacher Education and Kinesiology faculty member - Dan Conn
- World Languages and Cultural Studies faculty member - Samuel Stinson
Term
- All appointed members serve one-year terms. The Director of Institutional Assessment is a permanent Co-chair.
Method for filling a vacancy
- The Chair of a department with a vacancy will appoint a faculty member to serve for the remainder of the academic year.
Meeting minutes are available on Teams/Sharepoint
