The Student Affairs Assessment Consortium is the first comprehensive data collection and benchmarking program in student affairs. The Assessment Consortium uses second generation technologies and high quality assessment expertise to integrate data related to student experiences and learning outcomes, operational benchmarking, and leadership best practices.

Key Features

• Rather than distinct and separate assessment initiatives, data resulting from the Assessment Consortium can be analyzed in a holistic way that links student data, operational data, and best practices.
• Data from the Assessment Consortium can be linked to existing institutional data (enrollment data, CIRP, NSSE).
• Professionals and scholars from the leading higher education associations will advise and author all Consortium assessments and research reports.

Consortium Highlights

• Data collection on the topics that are critical to student affairs professionals
• Ease of implementation on campus
• Multi-peer group benchmarking possibilities
• Online, real-time data reporting capabilities
• Campus data ownership
• Cross-project data integration and reporting
• Content differentiation based on institutional context
• Summary reports for each topical area that synthesize student, operational, and trend data

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About the Assessment Consortium

Overview

The Student Affairs Assessment Consortium is a new initiative led by NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, with the support of other student affairs associations. The Assessment Consortium is powered by the assessment and technology infrastructure of StudentVoice.

The mission of the consortium is to guide and support college and university efforts in assessment, analysis, and knowledge creation to further the practice of student affairs.

Specific goals of the Assessment Consortium:

• Coordinate assessment initiatives with a broad range of Student Affairs professional associations
• Facilitate collection of student, operational, and leadership/trend data
• Produce focused, data driven reports on mission critical issues
• Identify key trends that effect student learning and development
• Provide campuses with easy to use data analysis tools
• Benchmark campus-specific data with peer institutions
• Connect data with strategic goals and priorities for the institution

Implementing the Assessment Consortium

The Student Affairs Assessment Consortium consists of an annual campus subscription. The annual subscription will allow for campus participation in four separate assessment projects. Each year, the Assessment Consortium will highlight different program areas for data collections and analysis. Each project will consist of data and analysis as follows:

• Operational data: Information related to staffing, facilities, and budgets
• Leadership data: Trends, issues, challenges, and best practices
• Student data: Perception and outcomes data that builds on questions uncovered from leadership data

Subscription Features

Each campus owns its own data. Campus subscribers will have access to easy-to-use, sophisticated data analysis tools that provide a campus-wide view of student data, benchmarking analysis and linkage to campus and divisional strategic efforts. Student affairs professionals on member campuses can link programs, data, and outcomes to their strategic goals and objectives, in a truly comprehensive manner.

In addition to the rich campus-based data analysis, each campus subscriber will receive a set of research reports on each of the programs studied for that particular year.

Highlights are as follows:

1. Senior Student Affairs Officer Executive Report -
   Campus subscribers will receive a comprehensive Senior Student Affairs Officer Executive Report that includes summary analysis from The Profile of the College Student Study and the Senior Student Affairs Officer Trend Survey. Data from the Profile of the College Student Study will include analysis and discussion of the following topical/program areas:
• demographics
• academic involvement
• academic integrity
• health and wellness
• technology use
• media consumption
• values and beliefs
• future aspirations

2. Assessment of Critical Student Affairs Programs -
   Subscribers participate in three additional assessment projects on key student affairs programs and priorities. The tentative topical schedule for Year One is:

   i. Student Activities
   ii. Campus Climate/Diversity/Inclusivity
   iii. Campus Safety and Security/Student Conduct

   The topical schedules for Year 2 and Year 3 are currently in development, but the subject matter areas that are under consideration include: Housing/Residence Life; Campus Recreation/Wellness; Civic Engagement and Leadership; Career Planning and Professional Aspirations; Orientation and Parent Programs; and Mental Health and Counseling.

3. Each of the four projects will include operational, trend, and student data.
4. Each subscriber will receive secure access to a campus assessment portal that allows the end-user to view, analyze, and share study results.
5. Annually, subscribers will receive a national report for each of the four projects.  These reports will be comprehensive, research based reports that will provide critical analysis necessary for planning and decision making.

Campus Subscription Costs

* Campuses with less than 5,000 full time students will receive an abridged version of the Consortium, whereby they participate in the Profile of the American College Student and then select one of the three additional subject matter areas.

Implementation Schedule

Registration and payment for 2008-2009 Year One studies
Summer 2008

Operational and trend data collection
Fall 2008

Seek institutional approval for student data collection
Fall 2008

Student data collection
Spring 2009

Summary reports available
Summer 2009

To receive more information, click here: http://studentvoice.com/naspa/consortiumform

To sign up, click here.