Assessment of Department Objectives - Arts & Sciences
Subject area: Degree to which departmental objectives or ends sought are met across the Arts & Sciences curriculum.
Format: Survey given to each department's faculty members.
Implemented: Department objectives reviewed in 2005.
Data summary:
What evidence does our department have that our department objectives are being met?
- Successful graduates
- More graduates attending graduate school
- Student interest at an all time high in ROTC
- Graduates going to foreign countries for missions work
- Increase in the number of academic fields
- Quality of senior projects
- Exit interviews
What changes and improvements have occurred since 1997?
- Added leadership development field
- Added history field
- Added another full-time faculty member
- Improved quality fo senior projects
- Made ROTC more appealing
- Greater number and more diverse graduates
- Input of other department chairs on their fields of study
- Development of advisory board
What were the causes or what was the impetus for making these changes?
- Student feedback
- Faculty ideas/vision
- Advisory board