Administrative Regulation Title:  College Effectiveness Committee (CEC)

Regulation Number:   2.0.14

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The College Effectiveness Committee (CEC) is an advisory body to the Chief Academic Officer / Accreditation Liaison Officer, and the President.

The College Effectiveness Committee (CEC) facilitates processes for documenting evidence of institutional effectiveness to promote continuous improvement and oversee compliance with federal, state, and accreditation requirements. This includes student learning within academic programs, student learning within co-curricular programs and services, and effectiveness within operational units.

Charge:

In partnership with the College community, CEC:

  1. Advise on all assessment activities of the institution, including:
    1. Review assessment documentation to ensure compliance with external accreditation bodies and college goals for institutional effectiveness and student learningEnsure that assessment results are used for continuous program/service/operational improvement
    2. Ensure appropriate feedback is provided to college departmental and program assessment/ institutional effectiveness
    3. Act as a resource, providing coaching, and training for those conducting assessment/institutional effectiveness
    4. Budget impact statements and priorities for consideration by the Cabinet, and College Budget Advisory
  2. Communicate results of assessment activities to the campus community.
  3. Evaluate and recommend solutions regarding data access and transparency.
  4. Develop and maintain a current listing of persons within each department who are responsible for coordinating assessment.
  5. Oversee and monitor the College’s Strategic Plan, the College’s Student Success Plan, and the College’s Strategic Enrollment Plan.
  6. Develop and present the annual outcomes assessment report to the campus community.
  7. Oversee the process and annual assessment reporting across campus.
  8. Develop and maintain the College’s Assessment Manual.

These recommendations should reflect the College’s Mission and Vision, the deliberations and decisions of campus committees, the actions of the Board of Trustees, and the President of the College. In addition to their advisory role to the VPAS, all Committee members should consider themselves to be advisors and critical sources of transparent communication to the general campus community about the nature and state of the budget and the budget process.

Scope:

The committee will examine all submitted assessment and institutional effectiveness reports from instructional programs, co-curricular departments/services, and operational areas at Eastern Wyoming College. The committee will report to the Cabinet and departments that are not participating fully or from which unsatisfactory reports have been received.

Operation:

Each voting member shall have one vote.

Definitions:

Instructional Areas: Those areas, which offer credit-bearing courses, certificates, and/or degrees.

Instructional units assess student performance related to EWC’s Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs), Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs), and Course Learning Outcomes (CLO’s).

Co-curricular Areas: Those areas that offer activities, programs, and/or learning experiences that compliment, in some way, what students are learning in their classes.

  • Co-curricular areas assess student learning related to EWC’s Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs), sometimes in addition to established industry outcomes, such as those espoused by NASPA.

Operational Areas: Those areas with primary focus on college infrastructure and non-instructional services.

  • Operational areas assess their efficiency against department-specific operational outcomes and/or established professional standards, such as NACUBO standards for business offices or LEED standards for building efficiency.

Membership

The Committee’s membership structure is designed to provide for a continuity of expertise as well as an opportunity each year for new members to join. All members are encouraged and expected to consider themselves representative of EWC broadly, rather than representative of a single department, group, or a narrower constituency. The committee will consist of 8 members.

  • Director of Research, Planning, & Institutional Effectiveness, Chairperson              permanent
  • VP of Administrative Services, Vice Chairperson                                                                  permanent
  • VP of Academics and Student Services, Vice Chairperson                                                permanent
  • Faculty representing Transfer and CTE programs                                                                2 yrs. upon appointment
  • Prof. /Classified Staff representing Administrative Services                                           2 yrs. upon appointment
  • Prof. /Classified Staff representing Student Services                                                         2 yrs. upon appointment
  • Prof. /Classified representation from the Douglas Campus                                             2 yrs. upon appointment
  • by VP of Douglas Campus

 

Original Adoption Date:  2/22/21

Revision Date(s):   6/1/21, 11/9/21, 10/1/23

Date reviewed, no change: