Updates
The Rubric Advantage: Designing for Meaningful Assessment Oct. 15, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
By kmentus
Posted in Fall 2025 Newsletter, Updates
SWAAC, the System-Wide Academic Assessment Committee, comprising assessment staff, interested faculty and administrators from across the UMS, is charged with finding and sharing ways to assist programs in measuring student learning and implementing change based on the results of assessment. On Oct 15, 2025 we will be providing our third annual system-wide workshop. This year’s […]
Assessment Mini-Grant Showcase Oct 22, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
By kmentus
Posted in Fall 2025 Newsletter, Updates
Please join us in person for lunch and a showcase of work accomplished by programs that received mini-grant funds last year to improve or kickstart their program assessment process. We will have presentations from Special Education, University Studies, Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Nursing. Lunch tickets to the Bear’s Den will be provided! Our hope […]
3-Year Assessment Cycle Change + Annual Reporting Reminder
By kmentus
Posted in Fall 2025 Newsletter, Updates
Previously due at the end of June in the final year of each 3-year cycle, the three-year program assessment deadline now falls a year later, at the end of June in the year after data collection is complete. This change, made at the request of faculty, provides a full academic year for reflection on assessment […]
Welcome to our Newest Staff Members
By kmentus
Posted in Fall 2025 Newsletter, Updates
Heather Pixley – The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA) is pleased to welcome Heather S. Pixley to the University of Maine as our new Assessment and Evaluation Specialist. In her role, Heather will provide assessment support to more than 150 graduate degree programs and facilitate qualitative research for program improvement within UMS Transforms. […]