PI: Bev Watford, Associate Dean - Academic Affairs

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: The goal for the project, "was to educate faculty on outcomes assessment, bottom line."
Project Grants and Expenditures: $4000 (year 8), $4000 (year 9), faculty travel to attend workshops, "I probably sent… 9 or 10 a year… sometimes what the departments would do is they would pay for one person and I would pay for one person from their department so they would get two that could go…."



 


Selected faculty were trained in "how to evaluate outcomes assessment." Faculty were sent to: Rose-Hulman University "who runs an outcomes assessment institute every summer or spring," outcomes assessment workshops sponsored by the accrediting agency ABET, and related sessions held at professional meetings of groups such as the American Society of Civil Engineers and the IEEE.

After training, "...what [faculty] were to do was to come back and educate their faculty about what they learned so they disseminated the information around their faculty."