Integrating Higher Education Planning and Assessment:
A Practical Guide

by David E. Hollowell, Michael F. Middaugh, and Elizabeth H. Sibolski

This ebook provides insight on the higher education assessment process with an emphasis on planning and metrics. Using their extensive experience on the University of Delaware campus the authors give numerous examples of the integrated nature of planning. Intended for anyone on campus who is involved with the planning or accrediting process, this book provides a useful resource.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Structuring the Planning Process
• Chapter 3: Academic Planning
• Chapter 4: Resource Planning
• Chapter 5: Facilities/Physical Resources Planning
• Chapter 6: Understanding the Language of Planning
• Chapter 7: Strategies for Assessing Results
• Chapter 8: Integrating Planning and Assessment
• Chapter 9: Planning and Assessment at the University of Delaware: A Case Study
• Chapter 10: Building Planning and Assessment Processes on Your Campus
• Closing Thoughts
• Selected Bibliography and Other Resources
• Acknowledgments

Author Information

David Hollowell is executive vice president and treasurer at the University
of Delaware. He was the 1994–95 president of the Society for College and
University Planning (SCUP) and the 1997 recipient of SCUP’s Distinguished
Service Award. He has also served as treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 2004.

Michael Middaugh is assistant vice president for institutional research and
planning at the University of Delaware. He is the 2005–06 president of the
Society for College and University Planning and also served as president of of
the Association for Institutional Research in 2000–01. He is a commissioner
with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and national director
of the Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity.

Elizabeth Sibolski is executive associate director of the Middle States Commission
on Higher Education and was previously director of university planning
and research at the American University in Washington, D.C. She was
also the 1998–99 president of the Society for College and University Planning.