Assessment Practices: A Working Group for Higher Education Professionals

Assessment Practices: A Working Group for Higher Education Professionals

Assessment in higher education is more than a compliance exercise—it’s a tool for improving teaching, learning, and institutional effectiveness. Yet, balancing accountability requirements with a culture of continuous improvement can be challenging. This working group offers a collaborative space to share experiences, strategies, and challenges related to academic and co-curricular assessment. Guided by an experienced facilitator, participants will explore ways to make assessment meaningful, actionable, and aligned with institutional priorities.

Who Is This For?

This working group is for higher education professionals who lead or coordinate academic or co-curricular assessment on their campuses and want peer support to strengthen their practice. You’ll find it especially valuable if you:

• Are a faculty member, staff member, or administrator actively engaged in academic or co-curricular assessment.
• Work in institutional effectiveness, accreditation, or related roles focused on assessment and improvement.
• Serve as an assessment coordinator or as a member of an assessment committee.
• Are a leader looking to better connect assessment results to planning, resource allocation, and decision-making.

Benefits

• Discover approaches to designing assessment processes that drive improvement.
• Strengthen skills in using data for continuous improvement.
• Build a peer network for sharing resources, tools, and solutions.

Facilitator

Erica Eckert

Assistant Professor, Higher Education AdministrationKent State University

Registration

Note: This conversation will not be recorded.

Deadlines

You will receive an email, including meeting links, approximately one week prior to the beginning of the first session.

Registration will close on April 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM Eastern.

*Cancellations must be made in writing and may be submitted by email to your registration team registration@scup.org by 3/13/2026. Refunds are subject to a processing fee – 10% of the total purchase. No-shows are not eligible for a refund, and funds committed by purchase order must be paid in full by the first day of the event. Refunds will be issued within 30 days of received written notification.

Please contact the Josh Humbel at josh.humbel@scup.org with any questions.