Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

With summer courses in full swing we wanted to provide information on important dates related to online student evaluations of teaching (SET). Since all courses are being offered remotely this summer, all evaluations will be done online using the Blue platform. The latest information about timing of SETs is available on the Office of Institutional […]

With generous support provided by the President’s Office, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA) mailed the Life After UMaine survey to 1,641 baccalaureate degree recipients who graduated in December 2017, May 2018, or August 2018. A response rate of 26% provided helpful data to illustrate how our graduates are faring. Nearly four-fifths of […]

Like other aspects of learning at UMaine in spring 2020, student evaluations of teaching (SET) for all courses were administered online using the existing Explorance Blue system. A total of 2250 course sections were evaluated online with 20,191 evaluations received from students. While these numbers are impressive, they do represent a decline in overall mean […]

The spring evaluation reports are ready for viewing. With the move of all courses to online evaluations for spring 2020, we want to ensure faculty are able to find their student evaluation reports. Faculty should have received at least two emails from Lisa Henderson on May 18, 2020 with titles similar to “Student Evaluations of […]

Each year, the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA) provides the colleges a set of annual reports that include enrollment by major, retention and graduation rates, admissions data, credit hours, information about the number of  faculty, and degrees.  The first installment of these data, which includes enrollment, admissions, and retention/graduation rate information, was provided […]

On May 12th, 2020, about 40 members of the UMaine community participated in a virtual “onsite” with EAB, discussing outcomes from the first year of Navigate implementation, as well as plans to use the platform more strategically moving forward. One of those sessions, Running Strategic Campaigns on Navigate, has been uploaded to our Navigate training […]

The New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) is the regional accrediting agency for University of Maine and the University of Maine at Machias. Our last 10 year comprehensive evaluation took place in spring 2019 and this past February, UMaine received the official letter indicating our continued accreditation.  The letter can be found at https://umaine.edu/provost/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/03/NECHE-Accreditation-Letter-2.12.20.pdf . […]