EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Assistant Dean for Assessment's major responsibility is to provide leadership, expertness, and resources for faculty consideration of assessment. The Assistant Dean for Assessment is responsible for overseeing the Center's Assessment Office, including review of all degree programs and portfolios, coordinating the process of evaluation of experiential learning, counseling students regarding College policies and other academic concerns relating to assessment and program planning.

I. Assessment Responsibilities

The Assistant Dean for Assessment supervises the assessment operations at the Center, managing the Assessment office and overseeing activities related to degree program design, portfolio preparation, evaluation of prior learning, review of degree programs and portfolios and assessment committee deliberations. The Assistant Dean for Assessment:

A. Actively participates in deliberations of Center Assessment Committee and serves as ex-officio Committee member in Associate Dean's absence, to help assure that all important academic concerns are addressed, that a fair consistency of judgment is maintained, and that students are given clear and useful advice. The Assistant Dean schedules committee meetings; prepares written questions for each proposed degree program and portfolio, which serve as an agenda for the meeting; brings relevant information to the committee regarding special concerns of students and mentors, ESC policies and curricular guidelines, ESC precedents, and similar programs or requirements of other colleges and universities, professional organizations and industries; and communicates committee deliberations and decisions to students and their mentors.

B. Reviews all proposed degree programs and portfolios for conformance to College policy before committee consideration and discusses concerns about the presentation and educational plan with students and mentors, regularly consulting with experts in the field of concentration.

C. Facilitates an open channel of communication on assessment issues by encouraging as well as participating in faculty discussion of program planning and assessment issues in faculty business meetings colloquia, area of study meetings, and less formal groups.

D. Coordinates evaluation of prior learning activities by soliciting all evaluations, developing resources and maintaining procedures to get appropriate materials to evaluators, instructing evaluators as necessary, reviewing all evaluations of experiential learning for adherence to College standards and approving evaluations prior to committee review.

E. Provides resources, materials, workshops, and consultation services for students planning degree programs and preparing portfolios. Selects and instructs consultants for program design.

F. Supervises Assessment Secretary, monitors evaluation budget, and coordinates administration of all assessment procedures and systems to provide appropriate review and efficient processing of all portfolio documents from the time of their receipt in the assessment office through OPRA concurrence.

G. Participates in Center and college-wide forums on assessment related topics including meeting weekly with the Associate Dean to review assessment policy issues and faculty development activities, working with assessment task force and assessment staff to establish objectives and procedures for further improvements of assessment resources and procedures, maintaining liaison with OPRA, and interacting with assessment personnel from other centers.

II. Other Duties

While the Assistant Dean for Assessment's major area of responsibility is the effective operation of the college assessment system, limited additional assignments will include:

A. Acting as administrator in charge of Center in absence of Dean and Associate Dean.

B. Participating actively in ESC and Center governance system as appropriate, including service
on Center and College-wide Committees.

C. Occasionally, representing ESC and RAC committees and at other community functions.

D. Mentoring in area of academic expertise, as other responsibilities permit (normally 4-5
students) or leading small group studies.