Support for Faculty and Staff

How can we help you?

The Office of Assessment, Accreditation, and Institutional Effectiveness can support and assist you in a variety of ways.

Learn more on this page, and by reading our related pages on Accreditation, Assessment, Compliance, and Institutional Effectiveness.

Please contact Melissa Sultana melissa.sultana@baruch.cuny.edu if you have questions.

We look forward to working with you!

Academic Assessment

Faculty

In collaboration with skilled administrators who provide assessment expertise, training, and oversight, project management, and collaborative learning opportunities, faculty lead assessment of student learning at Baruch College, as per college governance and Middle States standards for accreditation. “Faculty-led” assessment means that faculty are responsible for:

Developing student learning outcomes.
Developing and teaching curricula which provide students with opportunities to attain these learning outcomes.
Developing rubrics and methods (ie, assignments) to assess how well these learning outcomes are met.

Assessment Managers

Administrative partners from each school partner with faculty to support and guide assessment processes. They help to ensure tools align with current, effective, and inclusive practices and that faculty regularly review and update outcomes with the goal of curriculum improvement.

The OAAIE team and assessment managers within each school work with all faculty, as well as Associate Deans, department Assessment Coordinators, and school assessment committees to facilitate the process of accreditation support, Academic Program Review (APR, aka Department Self-Study), program assessment of the undergraduate major and of graduate programs, and assessment of general education (Pathways).

OAAIE provides custom training for departments, and assists in understanding and implementing tools to facilitate and support faculty work (for example, some of the national frameworks listed further down this page).

We work with each school at Baruch College, their Associate Dean, department Chairs, faculty, and assessment manager, on:

developing or refining program learning goals, and thinking through how to assess them
mapping the department curriculum
developing or revising rubrics for assessment
developing or revising surveys for assessment
understanding results of assessment — data analysis, interpretation of results, and thinking through next steps

In addition to such ongoing work, upon request we are happy to work with individual faculty members on:

developing your individual course learning goals, and thinking through how to assess them
connecting course learning goals to programmatic learning goals

Assessment of administrative, educational support, and student support services

Administrators and staff

Each division and department is responsible for periodically engaging in assessment of their programs and services, as per Middle States standards of accreditation. Learn more about assessment of administrative and operational units as well as about institutional and departmental effectiveness.

We work with Vice Presidents, department directors, program directors, division and department assessment committees, to facilitate the process of accreditation support, division or department program assessment, planning, and effectiveness efforts.

We provide custom training for departments, and assist in understanding and implementing tools that facilitate and support unit work (for example, some of the national frameworks listed further down this page).

We work with various committees across Baruch College on assessment, planning, and institutional effectiveness initiatives.

In addition to such ongoing work, we can also help you and / or your department with:

developing or revising mission / statement of purpose
developing or revising service and operational goals for the division or department
understanding the connection between department work and both CUNY and Baruch College goals and strategies
developing or revising rubrics for assessment
developing or revising surveys for assessment
understanding results of assessment — data analysis, interpretation of results, and thinking through next steps

The Learning Collaborative at Baruch College

The Office of Assessment, Accreditation, and Institutional Effectiveness hosts the Learning Collaborative, a virtual and onsite gathering of faculty, administrators, staff and students interested in learning more about institutional and department effectiveness, assessment, strategic and operational planning, and accreditation.

Members of the Baruch College community can use their Baruch Username and Password to access an internal, secure Learning Collaborative site with extensive resources to support faculty and staff on assessment and planning for all academic disciplinary areas and administrative/ operational areas.

On this public-facing page, we are pleased to share some local tools, workshop presentations, and our recommendations for nationally-recognized tools to facilitate assessment, planning, and institutional effectiveness.

Professional development resources

The Office of Assessment, Accreditation, and Institutional Effectiveness provides general and customized training on a range of topics, including assessment, strategic and operational planning, accreditation, and institutional effectiveness.

Internal workshop presentations

Baruch Learning Collab workshop Intro to assessment Spring 2019

Baruch Learning Collab workshop Intro to IE Spring 2019

Internal tools

Accessible education

Baruch LearningCollab tool_Accessible education for all updated 2020 07 15

Assessment cycle

Baruch LearningCollab tool_Assessment cycle_updated 2020 07 15

Course blueprints for faculty

Baruch LearningCollab tool_ Course blueprints updated 2020 07 15

Using logic models

Baruch LearningCollab tool_Using logic models updated 2020 07 15

Nationally recognized tools and frameworks for quality and inclusivity

The following are excellent tools which we encourage our colleagues within the Baruch College community to use.

Our office is happy to assist you and your colleagues with learning more about these tools, and implementing them.

ACE Framework for decision making and planning

We encourage use of the ACE Framework developed by Plymouth State University (ACE = Adaptability, Connection, and Equity), which is a guide for decision making and planning for assignment-, course-, and institution-level responses during times of crisis. While it is oriented toward academic planning, the principles can also be applied to administrative, educational support, and student support services.

Assessment of candidate contribution to diversity, equity and inclusion

The University of California, Berkeley has an adaptable Rubric for Assessing Candidate Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Assessment of institution-wide diversity

The NERCHE Rubric for Self-Assessment of Institution-wide Diversity is a tool which provides a framework for thinking about institutional diversity.

Assessment of online course design and teaching

We encourage use of the Online Learning Consortium’s Quality Scorecard. The OLC OSCQR Course Design Review Scorecard is a course-level quality rubric for reviewing and improving the instructional design and accessibility of online courses based on online best practices, and can be used to identify and target aspects of online courses for improvement. The rubric includes the following categories: Course Overview and Information, Course Technology and Tools, Design and Layout, Content and Activities, Interaction, Assessment and Feedback.

Assessment of student learning

We encourage the use of the AAC&U VALUE rubrics for assessment of student learning. These were developed by teams of faculty and administrators from across a range of higher education institutions in the United States.

Assessment of student development

We encourage use of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) Student Learning and Development Outcomes for assessment of student growth resulting from co-curricular programming. The Student Learning and Development Outcomes guidelines provide more detail. These are specifically about learning and development outcomes for co-curricular programs.

Assessment of administrative, educational support, and student support services

We encourage use of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) Standards for assessment of administrative, educational support, and student support service. These are tools for assessment of an overall unit or program. The General Standards provide a flexible framework for all units, while CAS also has a broad range of functional area standards.

Members of the Baruch College community can access information about how to use the CAS standards, as well as the actual CAS General Standards and the functional area standards, by using their Baruch Username and Password to access our internal Library of Professional Development Resources section on the CAS Standards.

Designing an Accessible Online Course

We encourage learning more about and applying tools for designing an accessible online course. These are tools for facilitating access and inclusion for all learners, a key value at Baruch College as expressed in our mission and goals.

Making Excellence Inclusive

The AAC&U Initiative on Making Excellence Inclusive is an approach which supports using tools such as the USC Diversity Toolkit.

Universal Design for Learning

We encourage use of the principles of Universal Design for Learning in higher education. UDL is an educational framework that guides the design of learning goals, materials, methods and assessments as well as the curriculum, with the needs of all learners in mind. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines.