Institutional Effectiveness
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness serves to provide current information including campus strategic planning processes; assessment reports of student learning outcomes in degree program offerings; survey summaries of student, faculty and staff perceptions of all areas of the college; and compilation of institutional and demographic data that enables the faculty, staff and administration to fulfill the goals of the mission statement.
Institutional Assessment
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness endorses the SACSCOC definition of Assessment as the systematic collection, review (ie, analysis), and use of information about an activity or unit undertaken for the purpose of making decisions and consistent judgments, including taking actions, that are designed to enhance operations and activities of the unit, and improve the performance.
J. Mark Knowles
Director, Institutional Effectiveness & Assessment
Madison Monroe Educ Bldg, Office 211
(409)984-6432
knowlejm@lamarpa.edu