Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning
The Academy for Assessment of Student Learning offers HLC member institutions a four-year sequence of
events and interactions that are focused on student learning, targeted at accelerating and advancing efforts
to assess and improve student learning, and designed to build institution-wide commitment to assessment of
student learning. SCSU is one of 13 institutions in the first cohort of the Assessment Academy. Learn more.
The first major event of the Assessment Academy was the Roundtable in November 2006 at which the SCSU team worked with Academy mentors to develop the three student learning projects that will be the focus of our Academy participation:
Project 1. University Assessment System
Project 2. Assessment of Student Learning in Programs
Project 3. General Education Assessment
Starting in the spring of 2007, these proposals were further refined through the Academy's Electronic Network. Its purpose is to facilitate communication among the Academy institutions about the student learning projects that each institution is working on over the four-year Academy commitment. Initially, SCSU was asked to respond to eight questions about each of its three student learning projects, as well as three "portfolio" questions that pertain to our participation in the Academy overall. These responses were posted on the Electronic Network, where we received feedback on from other Academy institutions and from Academy mentors. We also provided feedback to other institutions in our Academy cohort. In the fall of 2007 SCSU was asked to provide an update on each student learning project.
