The third Annual Institute on Best Practices in Institutional Effectiveness is requesting proposals for poster sessions on institutional best practices. The institute will be held in San Diego, California June 20-23, 2010. If you have created or facilitated a best practice in an institutional effectiveness area, please submit a proposal by March 31, 2010.

The Annual Institute on Best Practices in Institutional Effectiveness, sponsored by the Center for AppliedResearch, is a three-day, intensive institute designed to help higher education institutions develop and follow effective strategies to accomplish institutional effectiveness at their institutions. Special attention is paid to accomplishing reaffirmation of accreditation, learning outcomes (establishing, measuring, and using results), program and unit reviews, general education competencies and assessment, strategic planning, and effective assessment methods for academic programs, administrative units, and student services. Attendees leave with a notebook containing templates, processes, and presentation and educational tools to use at their institutions.

This year, speakers will focus on using appreciative inquiry for strategic planning, using qualitative methods to determine institutional quality indicators and understand outcomes, understanding the organization structure in colleges and universities and how that will help us facilitate change, and evaluation processes/metrics that demonstrate improvements in tough administrative areas (finance and facilities).

Registration materials will be available in March on the CPCC web site. For more information, contact Terri Manning at (704)330-6592 or terri.manning@cpcc.edu.