Reporting areas include assessment in the major, general education, student affairs, with high risk students, education minors, and in other educational programs such as impacts of technology, continuing education, and study abroad on students' learning and development.
Assessment focuses on undergraduate and graduate education.
The Center for Assessment and Research Studies coordinates the survey of alumni for academic departments and collection of institutional assessment information. The Center for Assessment and Research Studies's activities are limited to educational outcomes and do not include staff evaluation or evaluation of non-educational related operations. T o assist faculty, student affairs staff, and administrative staff in the process of their assessment of learning and development outcomes. This process includes defining educational objectives, evaluating the quality of assessment methods via reliability and validity information, collecting and maintaining information through technological application, and analyzing and reporting assessment information. This process of assessment, and particularly the learning and developmental outcomes, will be reported in academic program review.