Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Assessment Standards
Approved by the Membership February 2002
The institution has developed
and implemented an
assessment plan and process
that evaluates its overall
effectiveness in: achieving its
mission and goals;
implementing planning, resource
allocation, and
institutional renewal
processes; using institutional
resources efficiently;
providing leadership and
governance; providing
administrative structures and
services; demonstrating
institutional integrity; and
assuring that institutional
processes and resources support
appropriate learning and other outcomes for its student
and graduates.
Assessment of student learning
demonstrates that the
institution's students have
knowledge, skills, and
competencies consistent with
institutional goals and that
students at graduation have
achieved appropriate higher
education goals.
Note: All the remaining
12 standards include requirements for assessment, even those that do not relate
to academic matters per se.
18.
The institution’s faculty is sufficient in number,
background and experience to
support the programs
offered and includes a core of
faculty with sufficient
responsibility to the
institution to assure the continuity and
coherence of the institution=s
programs. The institution
provides a clear statement of
faculty responsibilities
including development and
review of curriculum as well
as assessment of learning.
22.
The institution engages in evaluating systematically
how well and in what ways it is
accomplishing its
purposes, including assessment
of student learning and
documentation of institutional
effectiveness.
Standard
2: Planning, Resource Allocation, and
An institution conducts ongoing
planning and resource
allocation based on its mission
and uses the results of its
assessment activities for
institutional renewal.
Implementation and subsequent
evaluation of the success
of the strategic plan and
resource allocation support the
development and change
necessary to improve and to
maintain institutional quality.
The human, financial,
technical, physical facilities and
other resources necessary to
achieve an institution's
mission and goals are available
and accessible. In the
context of the institution's
mission, the effective and
efficient uses of the
institution's resources are analyzed as
part of ongoing outcomes
assessment.