Faculty Governance Committee on Assessment

Charge (Faculty Meeting Agenda, October 2002; approved in the November 2002 Faculty Meeting)

The formation of Committee on Assessment was part of a Committee on Instruction recommendation to the faculty calling for the adoption of outcomes assessment for student learning. The full report of the Committee on Instruction was approved by a vote of the faculty on April 1, 2002. The Committee on Assessment is a permanent sub-committee of the Committee on Instruction and may be advisory to relevant administrative offices.

The Committee on Assessment is charged generally with the responsibility for areas of outcomes assessment beyond the departmental level. Specifically, the committee is asked to investigate and report on the assessment of service courses, non-major courses, and non-major advising, as well as other non-department-based co-curricular activities. As part of the on-going development of a comprehensive assessment program at Bucknell, the committee is charged finally with identifying and redefining its appropriate functions within the academic year 2002-03 and, if necessary, suggesting to CoI modifications to the Committee on Assessment's mission within that time.

Committee on Instruction agrees to convey reports of Committee on Assessment to the faculty without change but with comments that Committee on Instruction deems appropriate. Committee on Instruction will appoint the membership of Committee on Assessment. Faculty representatives will serve terms consistent with the other CoI sub-committees.

Pending Business

Committee Membership