1. Assessment Leadership Day Continuous Program Improvement
Planning, Analytics, and Decision Support (PADS)
Planning and Assessment

2. Agenda Role of Academic Quality in Vision for NYIT
Middle States Expectation for Institutional Improvement
Continuous Program Improvement (CPI) Framework
Draft Academic CPI Template
Draft Administrative CPI Template
Proposed Process and Timeline

3. Role of Academic Quality
Draft vision statement (Sep 2017): NYIT will become an engaged and supportive academic community devoted to ethical, highly impactful teaching and learning that is technology-rich, intellectually rigorous, and future-focused. Academic quality is critical to this vision.

4. Role of Academic Quality
Strategy for achieving our vision presented by Hank Foley (Dec 2017):
Be the 3rd best private
institution of higher education
in metropolitan New York by 2027

5. Role of Academic Quality
Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education Rankings:
Rankings focused on student success and learning – based on a survey of 200,000 current students
Sufficient resources?
Students engaged and challenged?
Good academic reputation?
Student outcomes post-graduation?
NYIT strengths: Diversity; Student Interaction/ Engagement
NYIT’s most notable challenge: Reputation

6. Role of Academic Quality
How do you change reputation in higher education?
ACADEMIC QUALITY
Is this the work of just the academic program? No…
INSTITUTIONAL EFFORT

7. MSCHE Expectations – Institutional Improvement:
Show institutional health and improvement
Student achievement
Financial standing
Linkage between the two
Report on major initiatives
What’s the intended improvement?
What can data tell you about impact on improvement?
How is this linked to your resources?
All of this done in the context of institutional mission.

8. Annual Institutional Updates
The 8 Year New Process
Annual Institutional Updates
•Financial and Student Achievement data elements
•Responses to recommendations (if needed)
Opportunities/Input for Institutional Improvement
Midpoint Review
•Cumulative Peer Review of AIU data
•Feedback from the Commission
Self-Study Evaluation
•Campus engagement in self-study process that culminates with an onsite team visit by peer evaluators

9. Rethinking assessment: “Student Achievement-” Academic Progress
Mandatory
Retention Rates
IPEDS Graduation Rates
Mean Time to Graduation
Assessment of Learning
Report – can exclude from review
% Credits Completed/Attempted
% Pell
% Minority
% Developmental
% 1st Generation
% Non-Traditional
% Part-Time
Self-Identified

10. Rethinking assessment: “Student Achievement-” Post-Institutional
Mandatory
Loan Default Rate
Loan Repayment Rate
Review – can exclude from review
1st time Pass Rates on Licensure Exams
Graduate Survey Satisfaction Results
Career Placement Rates
“First Destination” Survey Placement Rates
Transfer Rates
Self-Identified

11. Rethinking assessment: Financial Health Indicators- Documents
All
Most Recent Audited Financials
IPEDS Finance Data
Title IV Compliance Audits
Catalog/URL
Most Recent USDE Composite Score
If Applicable
Bond Rating for New Debt issued
Financial Audit from Parent Corporation

12. Continuous Program Improvement (CIP) Process:
At the heart of NYIT’s new framework – using data of all kinds to:
Demonstrate the health of the school/department
Student achievement (e.g., persistence, student learning)
Financial metrics (e.g., expenditures and revenues, enrollment)
Achievement of mission and goals – aspirational, strategic goals
Inform improvement initiatives
Inform resource allocation decisions

13. Dean’s data set (internal)
Student credit hours
FTE faculty
FTE staff
Total revenue and expense, total margin
Three year enrollment trend.
DFW (drop-failure-withdrawal)rates
Three-year trend data: retention rate, graduation rate, and mean time to graduation.
School/college level graduation students survey (GSS) and NSSE
Others (requested by deans)

14. Dean’s data set (outside-environment)
Market data
Benchmarking to peer programs
Student/alumni/employer/client satisfaction data
Others?

15. Academic CPI Template:
Department Overview – history, points of pride, mission, etc.
Department/Program Profile and Trend Analysis – Dean’s data set
Department/Program Goal Achievement – evidence of meeting goals, curriculum review, scholarly productivity, faculty service
Evidence of Student Learning and Achievement
Evaluation of Student Satisfaction with Academic Programs

16. Academic CPI Template:
Evaluation of Student Service Areas Impacting Student Life Cycle
Improvement Initiatives
Update on Past Improvement Initiatives
Self-Reported Resource Allocation Analysis
Department/Program Strengths and Concerns
Future Department/Program Goals and Recommendations

17. Administrative CPI Template:
Similar to Academic CIP with some additions:
Staffing Structure
Organizational Chart
Key Performance Indicators

18. New Framework (CPI) Implementation Discussion:
Timeline: a 4-year cycle with annual update to track its implementation?
Responsibilities & collaborations: School/department/division own it, and PADS facilitates the multi-year planning and assessment with data, and data analysis.
Tech platform to facilitate?
Presentation to a review team (who should be)
Initiate process Academic Year

19. School/department/division CPI presentations
Students’ learning improvement with evidence.
Students’ achievement improvement with evidence
Teaching effectiveness improvement
Scholarship productivity improvements
Curriculum improvement with evidence of updated syllabi
Alumni and current student recommendations of NYIT
Other evidence of improvement (e.g., rankings)…