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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 BurnsCollege of Arts and Sciences, Biology

Eilene EdejerSchool of Education

Laura GawlinskiCollege 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.