Assessment provides an opportunity for reflection about the effectiveness of our programs and services. Our goal is to incorporate assessment into the life of the Division as a means to ensure and highlight the many ways in which student affairs work contributes to student learning and the university mission. The foundational Jesuit ideal of magis, or the seeking of the “more,” encourages us to strive to improve and to seek excellence in all that we do. By incorporating assessment into our ongoing work and our strategic planning process, we are monitoring our progress towards our goals. We are committed to integrating assessment into our work as a means to guide decision making, communicate progress, and understand the impact of our work in service of the mission. By doing so, we can seek to understand the reality of our students’ lives and can make changes that might better meet their diverse learning needs.

• In an effort to identify and communicate aspects of the John Carroll student experience – both inside and outside the classroom – that can be improved to be more consistent with good practices in undergraduate education, information about John Carroll’s participation in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is now posted online at www.jcu.edu/nsse.
   
  
• Did you know...
  90% of JCU seniors reported that their understanding of social problems facing our nation was stronger or much stronger than when they first entered JCU

  Source: College Senior Survey 2009

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• Located on the Ground Floor of the D.J. Lombardo Student Center
• Phone: (216) 397-1972
• E-mail: kdean@jcu.edu
• Web: www.jcu.edu/vpsa/assessment
• Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Planning in
  Student Affairs: Kathleen Lis Dean