Annual Assessment Review Process:  The Assessment Coordinating Committee initiated a five-year assessment review during the 1999-2000 academic year.  A task force reviewed each of the college's assessment plans and provided feedback to the Assessment Coordinating Committee on: 

• Evidence of goals, outcomes, and assessment criteria for each major that meet NCA's criteria for assessment plans (i.e., the outcomes must be measurable and the assessment criteria must include both direct and indirect measures of student learning).
• Evidence of faculty involvement in the assessment process (i.e., minutes of the college meetings, on-line discussions, and additional notes on the faculty's use of assessment data).
• Evidence that the faculty have analyzed the data, developed a summary and interpretation of the data, and provided a detailed action plan for any proposed curricular changes.
• Evidence that the assessment process has been communicated to faculty, staff, and students (i.e., e-mail notices, letters to students, and publication of college and committee meeting minutes).
• Evidence that assessment data has been used for curricular and/or program modifications (i.e., assessment data used to justify curricular and/or program changes on the forms submitted to the DSU Curriculum Committee and to the Academic Affairs Council for system approval of curricular changes).

In addition to this task force review, the Assessment Coordinating Committee also conducted a five-year review of the assessment plan itself and the institution's assessment policies and procedures, to ensure that the documented plan reflects current practice and to ensure that policies and procedures are appropriate for the institution.  The revised assessment plan will be submitted to the general faculty for their approval early in Fall 2000.  The Assessment Office prepares detailed annual reports on this data and publishes short news articles summarizing the results.