The Assessment Advisory Board is the Faculty body that oversees and advises the administration on issues related to assessment of teaching and learning. The Board is responsible to the Curriculum Committee and to the Faculty. The elected faculty members will select a chair from among themselves.

1: Membership, Election, Tenure

1.1: The Board’s membership consists of one elected Faculty member each from the arts, humanities, natural sciences (including engineering and mathematics), and social sciences; and an Associate Academic Dean, serving as secretary.

1.2: The elected Faculty members of the Board serve staggered two-year terms and are eligible to succeed themselves.

2: Jurisdiction, Obligations, Procedures

2.1: The Assessment Advisory Board’s responsibilities include:

2.1.a: To adopt guidelines defining the essential characteristics of assessment;

2.1.b: To review and evaluate proposed assessment strategies and programs, and to study policy questions regarding assessment as these arise;

2.1.c: To monitor the implementation and development of the various components of the College’s assessment program for the purpose of identifying problems or special needs, recommending modifications, and taking other initiatives that the Board believes will maximize its effectiveness;

2.1.e: To assist the Office of the Dean in securing the necessary support for and contributions to assessment from the academic departments and programs, and to consult, as necessary, with individual chairpersons and program directors, or with groups of them, about issues of mutual concern;

2.1.i: To serve as an advisory body to the Office of the Dean of Faculty with respect to assessment;

2.1.j: To resolve, jointly with the Curriculum Committee, any issues that arise relating to assessment;

2.1.p: To oversee the preparation of catalogue statements and other published materials relating to assessment;

2.2: The Board may also undertake, from time to time, such comprehensive study of the assessment program as it thinks advisable; and it may recommend substantive changes in them to the Curriculum Committee and to the Faculty.

2.3: In the interests of an effective working relationship between itself and the Curriculum Committee, the Board shall send a copy of all minutes of its meetings to the chairperson of the Committee; and at the conclusion of each academic year it shall furnish the Committee with a written report summarizing its main activities for the year. All minutes and the year-end report shall also be sent to the Educational Policy Committee. (Passed April 20, 2010)