Full faculty and departmental engagement in the conversation, design, and practice of student learning outcomes assessment

Faculty determine the desired learning outcomes

Faculty devise/implement assessment methodologies appropriate for their outcomes

Academic units are best suited to determine how the results are used for internal programmatic improvements

The assessment process is iterative within units, is manageable within the existing resource base, is objective, is meaningful to faculty and students

Assessment is not an exercise; faculty engage in the process to gather and use information that they've determined to be integral to future decision-making and programmatic quality and capacities