In March, your chief academic officer was invited to participate in a survey conducted by NILOA. While the survey completed last year covered institutional level student learning outcomes assessment, this year's survey seeks to gather information on program level assessment. Each chief academic officer was asked to identify three people on their campus who could complete the survey. NILOA will contact them directly to ask for voluntarily participation in this research. The survey is brief (it should only take about fifteen minutes), and asks about the tools and approaches the programs are using to assess student learning. With support from several foundations and higher education associations, George Kuh (Indiana) and Stan Ikenberry (Illinois) are sending the survey to all accredited two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. to gain a clearer picture of outcome assessment practices nationwide. Institutions' participation in the survey is voluntary and the responses will remain confidential. The results, however, may be useful to all of us. As a gesture of appreciation for institutions who participate, Kuh and Ikenberry will send these institutions the survey results prior to any public release of the data. Please contact your chief academic officer to determine whether your institution has responded.

For more information on NILOA, visit the web site.

Staci Provezis
Project Manager
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
sprovez2@ad.uiuc.edu