Month: November 2019

On Oct. 14-15, 2019, I attended the Assessment Institute at IUPUI in Indianapolis.  I wrote about the keynotes addresses and about the importance of equity in assessment in a previous post.  In this post, I’m going to describe a few assessment trends I noticed at the conference. “Grand Challenges Facing Assessment Practitioners” The lofty title…

I attended the Assessment Institute at IUPUI in Indianapolis on Oct. 14-15, 2019.  According to its website, the Assessment Institute is the oldest and largest assessment conference, with over a thousand attendees and 400 institutions.  I previously attended the Institute in 2017, and it was great to learn about new information and to reconnect with…

SMHEC (South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium) is a partnership of several colleges, universities, and community colleges in the South Chicago area – visit the SMHEC website here.  On Oct. 11, 2019, SMHEC held its second annual Regional Faculty Development conference in Joliet, IL.  I served on the planning team for the conference, and I would…

The Midwest First Year Conference is a regional conference for First-Year Experience programs.  On Sept. 27, 2019, several FYE faculty and program coordinators from my school attended the conference at Illinois State University and gave presentations.  In a previous post, I wrote about the keynote address by John Gardner and Betsy Barefoot.  In this post, I…

The Midwest First Year Conference is a regional conference for First-Year Experience programs.  The conference began in the Chicago area, and a few FYE professors and coordinators at my university serve on the planning committee.  My university previously hosted the conference.  This year (on Sept. 27, 2019), the conference was at Illinois State University.  Several…