Academic Program and Departmental Operations Evaluation Resources
Academic Program and Departmental Operations Evaluation Handbook – The Academic Program and Departmental Operations Evaluation Handbook provides insight on the report structure and a timeline of activities.
The data sources provided are IR interactive reports available with CSU NetID credentials, PDFs or external websites.
- Academic Portfolio – Provides key performance indicators per college, including student success, student credit hours, and sponsored research expenditures.
- Unit Summary Data – This resource is a high-level summary of college and departmental data that has been designed specifically to help with the self-study process of the evaluation.
- Graduate Student Admission, Enrollment, and Student Success Reports (provided by The Graduate School, requires EID): PDF reports for 2010-2021 academic years.
- First Destination Survey (provided by the Career Center): Survey results for undergraduates available at the college and program levels and graduate student results at the college level; trends for past three administrations.
- Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Explorer provides U.S. Census wage data by discipline categories as well as insight into what industry graduates enter into for employment.
- National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) First-year Experiences and Senior Transitions (PDF): 2019 survey results include first-year student perspectives on academic perseverance, help-seeking behaviors, and institutional commitment and senior perspectives on post-graduation plans, links between the academic major and future plans, and confidence in skill development. Data provided at college-level; department-level results can be found here.
- Continuum of Engaged Scholarship – Engagement can be a means for accomplishing, informing and enriching research, teaching and service outcomes. This continuum outlines a variety of engaged activities with progressively increasing levels of involvement with external partners and the community.
- Curricular Analytics – Provides tools that allow faculty to visualize curricula with an eye toward understanding the impact of curricular complexity on student progress. Contact laura.jensen@colostate.edu for access.
- Vice President for Research – Research Analytics
- Rubric for Assessing High-Impact Practices in Undergraduate Programs – HIPs are active learning strategies empirically proven to be positively associated with student learning and engagement. Using this rubric units can evaluate the maturity of the HIPs in which their students participate.