Co-Curricular Assessment
Many programs and offices across campus engage students in learning outside of the classroom, from internship programs to student organizations to the library. Many of these programs have articulated student learning outcomes (such as leadership skills, career knowledge, research skills) and regularly assess how well their programs facilitate student learning in targeted areas.
Co-Curricular assessment provides UM-Dearborn with a broader picture of our students’ total and wide-ranging learning experiences. By supplementing academic program assessment, co-curricular assessment allows us to gauge our students’ exposure to UM-Dearborn’s Goals for the Undergraduate Experience, especially the last three of those goals: Collaboration, Cultural Understanding, and Citizenship.
The Co-Curricular Assessment Subcommittee collects assessment plans each fall and assessment reports each spring from the following programs, whose learning outcomes are linked below:
- Academic Service Learning
- Mardigian Library: Research Education
- Math Learning Center
- Science Learning Center
- START Advising
- Student Affairs
- Office of Student Life
- Center for Social Justice and Inclusion
- TRIO/Student Support Services
- Supplemental Instruction
- Tutoring Services
- Office of Academic Success
- Office of Metropolitan Impact
- Experience+
- Talent Gateway
- Career Services
- Study Abroad
- SURE
- Writing Center
Planning & Reporting Assessment
Assessing in an Online Environment
Developing Learning Outcomes or Goals
Council of Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS):
NASPA Outcomes & Competency Areas:
Canada College, Office of Planning, Research, and Student Services:
Assessment Readings
Co-Curricular Assessment Subcommittee
The Subcommittee assists in the coordination and oversight of co-curricular assessment in support of university-level assessment, utilizing a distributed model for assessment with local responsibility. The Subcommittee assists the Assessment Subcommittee in maintaining the University Assessment Plan by monitoring and supporting assessment activities in co-curricular units in Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management and Student Life. The Subcommittee charge can be read here.
Subcommittee Goals:
- Develop, execute, and oversee a plan to implement assessment activities in all relevant or applicable co-curricular units by 2023
- Facilitate and monitor assessment and reporting activities by co-curricular units
- Support university-wide assessment strategies by supplementing academic assessment to gauge students’ total and wide-ranging learning experiences
Membership
Chair & Ex-Officio: Director of Academic Success
Voting Members:
- Three members from Academic Affairs
- Three members from Student Life
- One member from Student Government
Subcommittee Members:
- Jessica LaGrange (Chair), Director of Academic Success
- John Taylor, Director, Writing Center, Academic Affairs
- Nadine Anderson, Senior Associate Librarian, Mardigian Library, Academic Affairs
- Tyler Guenette, Director, Office of Student Life
- TBD, Academic Affairs
- TBD, Office of Student Life, Student Life
- TBD, Office of Student Life, Student Life
- TBD, Student Government
Agendas from meetings that took place during 2018 - 2022 can be found here.
Agendas will be added regularly as the Subcommittee meets.
| Program | Fall 2022 | Winter 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Program Assessment | --- |
All programs due by May 15 |
| Co-Curricular | Assessment plans due Dec. 15 | Annual Reports due July 15 |