The AIR Forum is the world's largest gathering of higher education professionals working in institutional research, assessment, planning, and related postsecondary education fields. This four-day conference includes more than 400 presentations by colleagues representing all sectors of higher education and an exhibit hall featuring the latest tools and resources to support data use for decision-making. From networking with peers to workshops and a plenary session by a leading expert in the field, the Forum is the "must attend" event for seasoned and early career professionals. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: National Audience: Multidisciplinary, student services, Institutional Research, Assessment Officers, Administrative Officers Conference
AALHE is a professional association for assessment practitioners at colleges, universities, and higher education support organizations. It provides resources and a forum to support assessment practitioners' professional development and the open discussion of issues, strategies, policies, and processes associated with higher education's use of assessment as a tool to improve student learning and institutional effectiveness in fostering student success. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: National/International Audiences: Discipline-based, multidisciplinary, Student services, Institutional Research, Assessment Officers, Administrative Officers conference.
The Annual Institute on Best Practices in Institutional Effectiveness, sponsored by The Center for Applied Research, is three days of intensive training 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, student learning outcomes, programs 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 USB stick full of education tools to use at their institutions to accomplish their work. The material includes: program review models, unit review models for administrative and student services areas, sample learning, program and administrative outcomes, forms for prioritizing outcomes, logic models, worksheets, general education examples, developing rubrics, Bloom's taxonomy, quality indicators, benchmarking processes, and much more. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: National Audience: Faculty, Student Services, Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Assessment Officers, Administrative Officers Conference.
Drexel University, one of the 15 largest private, major research universities in the United States and a global leader in experiential education, is hosting its first annual regional conference on assessment. We hope to engage attendees in rich conversation through interactive presentations, snapshot sessions, and plenary addresses. It is anticipated that this first conference will attract 300 to 400 attendees from across the middle states region to Drexel’s Philadelphia campus and from many more institutions across the United States in the years to come. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: Regional/National Audience: Discipline Based, Multidisciplinary, Student Services, Institutional Research, Assessment Officers, Administrative Officers Conference
The Assessment Institute in Indianapolis is the nation's oldest and largest event focused exclusively on Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education and is designed to provide opportunities for: individuals and campus teams new to outcomes assessment to acquire foundation knowledge about the field; individuals who have worked as leaders in outcomes assessment to extend their knowledge and skills; those interested in outcomes assessment at any level to establish networks that serve as sources of support and expertise beyond the dates of the Institute. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: National/International Audience: Discipline Based, Multidisciplinary, Student Services, Institutional Research, Assessment Officers, Administrative Officers
This conference will be an opportunity to debate concerns and increase understanding of assessment practice within and across academic disciplines. It will provide an opportunity to share innovations, evidence-based change, reflections on practice, research and evaluative studies with a particular focus on the voice of the practitioner, working to improve assessment in their programs and institutions. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: International Audience: Higher Education professionals including lecturers, educational developers, learning support quality assurance staff
The Conference offers a broad range of sessions and services that include pre-conference workshops, approximately 200 general program sessions, an Exhibit Hall, and a Self-Study Fair. Each year, more than 4,000 administrators and faculty from more than 850 higher education institutions located throughout the 19-state HLC region attend the Annual Conference. Please click here to learn more about this conference.
Scope: Regional Audience: Discipline Based, Multidisciplinary, Student Services, Institutional Research, Assessment Officers, Administrative Officers.
As communicated previously, assessment reporting for 2019-20AY was suspended to give flexibility to departments/schools as a result of the abrupt shift to 100% online instruction due to COVID-19 disruptions and challenges. Despite this, departments that were ready to submit 2019-20AY reports were encouraged to do so. This was especially vital for disciplines with specialized accreditation whose assessment reports along with applicable evidence are scheduled to be reviewed by their respective accreditors within the next one to two years. Departments that elect to report assessment activities in September 2021 will be required to submit a two-year report (i.e., 2019-20AY and 2020-21AY). In sum, documentation of assessment activities is still a crucial process, but how we complete the process calls for flexibility as we continue to face challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) offers a series of annual conferences that foster reflection, discovery, innovation, and action on critical and emerging issues in undergraduate education. The conferences include engaging sessions on various aspects of assessment of student learning in general education and provides great opportunities for networking among colleagues from across the broad spectrum of higher education roles and institutions to reflect on professional practice and aspirations. Please click here to learn more about AAC&U assessment conferences.
Scope: Higher Education Assessment professionals, General Education, Faculty teaching general education courses.
The NASPA Annual Conference is a global gathering of student affairs passionate about critical higher education issues. The annual meeting, which draws student affairs professionals from colleges and universities in the US as well as 25 countries around the world, centers on various aspects of enrollment as well as assessment of student learning. Please click here to learn more about NASPA conferences.
Scope: Higher Education Student Affairs professionals, Higher Education Assessment professionals.
The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) is an international professional development organization for ePortfolio practitioners and researchers. The organization’s annual conference draws faculty and assessment professionals from various universities and colleges to promote the use of ePortolios as means of enhancing student learning and pedagogy. Please click here to learn more about AAEEBL annual meetings.
Scope: Higher Education Assessment professionals, Faculty.
