Criterion Three. Student Learning and Effective Teaching
Core Component 3a. The organization's goals for student learning outcomes are clearly stated for each educational program and make effective assessment possible.
Assessment of Student Learning
- General Education Requirements Assessment, University General Education Committee (UGEC)
- Institution-wide Academic Assessment Plan 2003, revised 2008
- School and College Assessment Plans
- School & College Assessment Reports (also available in hard copy in the Resource Room)
- University Assessment - Assessment of Academic Programs and Student Outcomes
- University Assessment Council
- University Assessment Funds
Assessment Examples
- College of Engineering Assessment & Accreditation
- Letters and Science Department and Program Assessment (please see also material in Resource room)
- Survey Examples (available in the Resource Room)
Additional Evidence
- Accountability reports, UW System
- Alumni Information Project
- Baccalaureate degree requirements, Letters and Science
- College Portrait, UW-Madison
- Field Education Handbook, School of Social Work
- General Education requirements
- Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), UW-Madison
- Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), AAC&U
- National African Language Resource Center
- Publishers Common Data Set
- Specialized Accreditations
- Student surveys
- Wisconsin Experience
See also handbook category #2 “Policies and procedures related to curriculum adoption, review, and evaluation”
Core Component 3b. The organization values and supports effective teaching.
- Awards for Teaching and Learning
- Center for Biology Education
- First-Year Conference
- Sabbatical Leave Program
- Teaching Academy
- Teaching and Learning Excellence @ UW-Madison
- Teaching and Learning Symposium
- Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Office of the
See also handbook category #10 “Policies related to the employment, orientation, supervision, and evaluation of full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and teaching assistants”
Core Component 3c. The organization creates effective learning environments.
- Academic Planning documents
- Academic Program Review
- Admissions, Transfer Student
- Adult and Student Services Center
- Center for the First-Year Experience
- Committee on the Transfer Student Experience (CTSE)
- Cross-college Advising Service
- Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community
- Faculty Divisions
- First-year Interest Groups (FIGs)
- Graduate Student Collaborative
- Graduate Student Professional Development
- Honors Program
- Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship
- Leadership and Involvement Record
- Leadership Program, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Multicultural Graduate Network
- National Study of Living-Learning Programs
- Pathways to Excellence
- Residential Learning Communities
- Retention and Graduation Rates for Undergraduates
- Transfers reports, Undergraduate
- Undergraduate Symposium
- Wisconsin Experience report (formerly Academic Enhancement Experiences Reports)
- Wisconsin Idea Undergraduate Fellowships
- Wiscontrepreneur Initiative
See also handbook category #16 “Student service policies and the refund policy”
Core Component 3d. The organization's learning resources support student learning and effective teaching.
- Admissions, Undergraduate
- Associated Students of Madison (ASM)
- Center for Leadership and Involvement (Student Organization Office)
- Community of Educational Technology Support (ComETS)
- Dean of Students, Office of the
- Digital Collections
- Engage Program
- Enrollment Management, Division of
- Greater University Tutoring Service (GUTS)
- “Housing Effect on First-Year Outcomes (the)”
- International Student Services (ISS)
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Campus Center (LGBTCC)
- Library and Information Literacy Instruction
- McBurney Disability Resource Center
- Multicultural Student Center (MSC)
- Registrar, Office of the
- Space Management Office
- Student Advocacy and Judicial Affairs
- Student Financial Aid, Office of
- UW–Madison libraries
- UW Digital Collections
- Vets for Vets
- Wisconsin Union
See also handbook category #3 “Policies on learning resources, including libraries, and formal agreements for the shared use of learning resources”