Project Timeline
CLAS Project Timeline
The CLAS project, a CLAS Quality Initiative Project, is due during year 9 of the Open Pathway Cycle.
Loyola University Chicago’s Quality Initiative project is: Coordinated Learning and Assessment Supports (CLAS). The CLAS Project aims to advance a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement in assessment of student program learning outcomes in academic programs. The project does this by promoting easier access to assessment supports, coordination of existing supports, and creating new supports as needed. It also provides a framework for ongoing collaboration around assessment.
Phase I: Project Development & Initial Implementation
The project team invited a team of CLAS Advisors, assessment champions across the university, to attend a CLAS Kickoff in May 2022. Please see the Advisor list below.
In Fall 2022, we began the first of three curricular modules on the project. An introduction to Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs), the two main project audiences – CLAS Advisors and Unit-Level Assessment Leads – attended separate workshop sessions on why PLOs are advisable to have, what PLOs are, when they are useful to implement and how to practice writing PLOs.
In Spring 2023, participants began the second module and attended sessions on how to map their PLOs to their curriculum so they can easily see where they're addressed and where are the best opportunities to assess PLOs in their specific programs.
In the summer of 2023, workshops on the third curriculum module – using assessment data to improve the experience in academic programs for students – will begin and continue in the fall 2023 semester. In Spring 2024, we will provide a final report to HLC on the CLAS project. See timeline figure below.
CLAS Project Timeline
SUMMER 2022
Project Kickoff
FALL 2022
PLO Workshops
SPRING 2023
Curriculum Mapping Workshops
SUMMER 2023
Resource Development
FALL 2023
Using Data Workshops
SPRING 2024
Final report to HLC
CLAS Advisors 2022-23
Name |
Unit |
---|---|
Alex Grigorescu |
Political Science |
Alli Sanchez-Perry* |
CELTS |
Amy Nelson-Christensen |
SOE / OIDEI |
April Browning |
DFPA |
Catherine Putonti |
Biology / Bioinformatics |
Chris Dickman* |
OOL |
Dana Garbarski |
Core, Sociology |
Eilene Edejer* |
OIE |
Eva Mika* |
SCPS |
Gail Baura |
Engineering |
Greg Gruener |
SSOM |
Hannah Lee Otto* |
ITRS |
Hong Ma |
Libraries |
Jackie Long |
CAS (Assoc.) Dean |
Jennifer Brendel |
Law |
Jessica Mansbach* |
FCIP |
John Gurnak |
OOL |
Julie Jacobi |
CSME |
Lee Schmidt |
Nursing |
Linda Kurtos |
SES |
Mark Anthony Torez |
SSOM |
Mary Ann Becker |
Law |
Matthew Anderson |
Parkinson |
Megan Kelly |
Arrupe |
Michael Burns |
CAS: Biology |
Mitchell Denning |
SSOM: SGS |
Patrick Green* |
CELTS |
Priscila Friere |
SOSW |
Rachel Shefner* |
Provost Office |
Robert Morrison |
Psychology |
Robyn Mallett |
Provost Office |
Stacy Wenzel* |
OIE |
Susan Grossman |
Graduate School |
Tim Classen |
Quinlan |
*indicates member of Executive Planning Team
Phase II: Implementation & Institutionalization
Since submission of the Final Report on the Quality Initiative in June 2024, the support structure for the project was modified to better support faculty. Early on in the project, CLAS Advisors provided critical help to conceptualize what faculty needed, promoted the need for improved assessment processes in their networks, and helped to build an assessment culture. In this institutionalization phase, faculty expect to provide annual assessment reports through a Qualtrics form on an annual basis, and are given feedback on their reports with recommendations for improvement.
This phase includes additional roles for faculty to continue to build a culture of assessment.
- Three Assessment Faculty Fellows support institutionalization through workshop facilitation and individual need-based support for faculty and/or faculty groups within academic units. Based on perceived needs indicated through assessment reporting, and/or during a unit’s APR cycle, Assessment Faculty Fellows reach out to assessment leaders in academic units to help faculty provide actionable data on student learning in their programs.
- Annual assessment reports are scored by a faculty scoring team who provide actionable feedback on the reports. New members of this team are recruited each year.
Faculty Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year are:
Michael Burns – College of Arts and Sciences, Biology
Eilene Edejer – School of Education
Laura Gawlinski – College of Arts and Sciences, Classical Studies
The CLAS project, a CLAS Quality Initiative Project, is due during year 9 of the Open Pathway Cycle.
Loyola University Chicago’s Quality Initiative project is: Coordinated Learning and Assessment Supports (CLAS). The CLAS Project aims to advance a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement in assessment of student program learning outcomes in academic programs. The project does this by promoting easier access to assessment supports, coordination of existing supports, and creating new supports as needed. It also provides a framework for ongoing collaboration around assessment.