There is a feedback loop through a separate committee, which is treated as a fifth department. Business has pilot courses that are required of every Business student. Assessment of these courses is done at the college level. For the other colleges, they rely on University Studies, which is assessed through ACT-Comp. Documentation of assessment at the college level has been sketchy.
Few colleges document the results or changes.
If these results or changes are documented in the college minutes, then there's a record, but otherwise there isn't. The committee members suggested that a recommendation for annual updates might be a good idea in order to document the changes. Marcia noted that many curriculum changes are not made because of assessment but for other reasons. Rollin said that was probably one of the reasons that NCA came back and said there needs to be assessment plans. Marcia added that courses also change due to external forces.