The committee structure, membership, and activities can also be viewed from here. If you listen to the stories of students, parents, staff, and faculty, many are stories of hard work and sacrifice in order for them to be at Syracuse University. If you listen to what we celebrate at graduations and convocations, we celebrate the success of our students and their hopes for the future. Assessment at Syracuse University is also about hope. It is not about quantitative measurements.
Faculty routinely assess students in their classes.
Many academic programs are assessed for accreditation by their professions. What is new at Syracuse University is the intention to be holistic about our understanding and observations of our students and how they are changed and equipped while they are with us. Put another way, we want to know with some assurance that our students are learning lessons of lasting value. These lessons of lasting value are learned in many places, not just inside classrooms. Recognizing this, assessment at SU considers what happens to students outside the classroom as well.