REGULAR MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

FACULTY SENATE

Meeting Minutes

5 December 2005

104 Gore Hall 4:00 pm

I. Adoption of the Agenda

The agenda was approved.

II. Approval of the Minutes

The meeting minutes of 7 November 2005 were approved.

III. Remarks

Karen Stein, director Office of Education Assessment and the chair of the University Education Assessment Council: Sustaining a Student Learning Environment at UD. The University of Delaware is initiating a university-wide student learning outcomes assessment program that asks the questions, What do we want our students to know? Did students learn what we wanted them to learn?

Four steps for assessing learning:

1. Establish learning goals/outcomes

2. Look for learning opportunities, identify where students are getting the opportunity to practice learning goals

3. Assessment

4. Using results

Resources

· University Education Assessment Council web site http://assessment.udel.edu/sassessmentCouncil.html

· Institutional Research and Planning

· Assessment Faculty Fellows (http://assessment.udel.edu/fellows.html)

· Workshops and Faculty Learning Institute, Winter session

· Website for technical assistance (http://assessment.udel.edu/)

Assessment fellows program. The Office of Education Assessment is looking for assessment fellows to lead their programs’ assessment. Faculty interested in being a fellow should contact Ud-outcomes@udel.edu or Karen Stein (kstein@udel.edu).

IV. Announcements by Senate President Avron Abraham

February Faculty Senate meeting will be long.

V. Consent Agenda

A. Announcements for Challenge: none

B. Resolutions: none

VI. Regular Agenda

A. Old Business: none

B. New Business: none

VII. Introduction of New Business: none

Adjourned 4:40

Submitted by Donald Lehman