Assessment and Program Review

Guided by our mission to educate leaders, build healthy communities, and make discoveries that change the world, the assessment of student learning contributes to KUMC's commitment to understanding and enhancing the student experience. To this end, the goals for assessment and academic program review at KUMC are:

• to foster a culture of continuous quality improvement
• to validate the programs contributions to supporting the mission of the university and enhancing student engagement and student learning
• to identify priorities for resource investment; and
• to develop a comprehensive understanding of the quality of the program and opportunities for improvement and innovation

Purposeful assessment efforts and program review allow units to review their strengths, consider additional areas for improvement and ascertain strategic goals and priorities.

KU Institutional Learning Goals

Focused on enriching the student learning experience, KU established six institutional learning goals during academic year 2020-2021.  The learning goals are intended to create a framework for aligning assessment efforts that are already occurring accross all campuses and are an externalization of the university's values around student learning.

• Creative Inquiry & Discovery 
  • Apply cognitive skills and a broad array of knowledge to promote inquiry, discover solutions, and generate new ideas and creative works. 
• Effective Communication
  • Listen, question, and articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in a range of contexts using a variety of means and modalities.
• Analytical Reasoning
  • Access, evaluate, and use qualitative and/or quantitative information to identify patterns, formulate and support interpretations.
• Social Awareness & Cultural Understanding
  • Develop a critical and reflective awareness of social, global, and cultural differences (including ability, language, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, ethnicity, indigeneity, and/or race) and their impacts on relationships.
• Ethical & Professional Responsibility
  • Demonstrate integrity and act responsibility with the interest of the larger community, environment, discipline, or profession in mind.
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Establish, grow, and sustain productive relationships to effectively address key issues facing local, national, or global communities and solve problems that advance society.