PACC Assessment Workshop: What Counts? And Why Does it Matter?

April 11, 2013

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

at Elizabethtown College

Co-sponsored by Elizabethtown College and PACC Central Region

This workshop will identify approaches to align assessment and evaluation of civic engagement programs with your institution’s mission. Its goals are to identify resources to:

1.     Identify resources and opportunities to assess and evaluate

2.     Share next practices (the new ‘best practices’)

3.     Create opportunity for networking with a learning community.

Topics will address institutional mission alignment for community engagement, weaving with accreditation and assessment into your community engagement strategies, and a simulation activity which explores case studies of different university-community partnerships at various developmental stages.

Registration Cost: $40 (Campus Compact members); $60 (non Campus Compact members).

Registration Deadline: March 25, 2013

Click here to register or https://www.elbowspace.com/servlets/cfd?xr4=&formts=2013-02-01 07:53:41.745218.  Stay tuned for final program agenda.

Workshop Components include:

A Panel: Weaving Accreditation and Assessment Together

Lina Dostilio, Duquesne University, moderator of institutional researchers: LaMont Rouse, Executive Director for Assessment, Accreditation and Compliance, Cedar Crest College; Steve Thorpe, Director of Institutional Research, Widener University.

A Presentation: Community-Based Research and Student Learning

Trisha Thorme, Princeton University, Director of Community-Based Learning Initiative

Two Case Studies: Building a Team & Process for Planning Assessment & Evaluation