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News, Blogs & CoPs

  • November 05, 2011

    AALHE Board of Directors Bestows First AALHE Service Award on UK Provost

    The AALHE Founding Board of Directors presented University of Kentucky Provost Kumble Subbaswamy with its first AALHE Service Award in acknowledgement of and deep gratitude for Dr. Subbaswamy's steady support and generosity in helping to launch the organization and its Inaugural Conference. Without Dr. Subbaswamy's support, neither the AALHE nor the conference would have been possible.

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  • November 05, 2011

    Highlights of Members-Only Resources

    Your AALHE membership allows you to join the discussions on the Assessment Directors Community of Practice.  Melanie Booth of Marylhurst University facilitates discussions concerning the daily challenges of our work as assessment professionals in higher education, and sharing of useful resources and practices gained through the work experiences of practitioners. Also, if you are...

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  • November 05, 2011

    Tell Us How You Think It Went

    As all assessment professionals and AALHE members know, continuous improvement requires collection and analysis of assessment data. To hep AALHE assess the current conference and improve future events, this year's conference participants are urged to complete and return the overall conference survey they received via email on 9 June 2011, as soon as possible. If you were a conference...

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  • July 26, 2011

    Requirements differ between regional and specialized accreditors?

    Recently, I got into a conversation about the potentially conflicting requirements of specialized business accreditors and regional accreditors. While AACSB describes the need to develop and measure SLOs for each "degree" within their definition of a program, I have been under the impression that our regional accreditor, HLC, considers every U/G major to be a program. If business...

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  • July 11, 2011

    Introducing the New Co-Facilitators of the Graduate Students' CoP

    In order to best serve our graduate student members, the Graduate Students Community of Practice will be co-facilitated by both an experienced higher education assessment professional, Dr. Robin Anderson, and a graduate student whose discipline is assessment in higher education, Kimberly R. Marsh, M.A. Dr. Anderson is the Academic Unit Head for the Department of Graduate Psychology at...

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  • July 07, 2011

    Membership Benefits & the AALHE Website -- Current and Future

    I recently received an inquiry concerning what comprises the AALHE membership fee.  I thought my answer would be informative to our members, not only to clarify what is available only to AALHE members now, but also to update everyone on what is already in the works, and what is being planned for the relatively near future: ...

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