The Office of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) supports the mission of Southeastern University (SEU) through assessment, planning, research, accreditation support, and the integration of technologies to promote a culture of data-informed decision-making, accountability, and quality enhancement.
IE provides key assessment and strategic planning services to the broader SEU community, including coordination of annual academic and administrative assessment reporting, survey design and administration, analysis of assessment results, course evaluation management, and academic program review.
With our university partners, we implement a comprehensive program of goal creation, evaluation of assessments, and the use of results for quality enhancement by:
We assist faculty, staff, and leadership with the creation and administration of in-house and published instruments for the measurement of attitudes, skills, knowledge, abilities, or trends. These include:
* Access to these reports is restricted to those university stakeholders with relevant permission and requires adherence to FERPA regulations.
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness leads the Academic Program Review (APR) initiative, which is a self-reflective process. Academic units investigate a number of key performance indicators, including learning objectives, curriculum, teaching and learning methods, student success, and administrative processes and procedures.
Academic Program Review Handbook
If your department is preparing to begin the APR process, or if you are just interested in how SEU reviews our academic programs for quality education and outcomes, open this document and read through the handbook.
Institutional Effectiveness cannot be achieved without actionable, mission-aligned planning. We collect, analyze, and summarize disaggregated institutional data to identify trends and thereby inform the strategic planning process. This is achieved through the following processes:
The maintenance of our regional accreditation is of paramount importance to the viability of our institution and the degrees we award. To secure this ongoing certification, we engage in the following activities:
We are committed to innovating and integrating the use of technology for accreditation support, assessment/planning, and research/reporting processes. This is expressed most visibly in two primary ways.
Access to the above resources is restricted to those university stakeholders with relevant permission and requires adherence to FERPA regulations.
Justin Rose, MTS
Associate Vice President
Information Management & Digital Learning
jerose@seu.edu
Kristen Hodges, PhD
Director, Institutional Effectiveness
klhodges@seu.edu
For general requests regarding Institutional Effectiveness, send an email to ie@seu.edu.
