Current Academic Year Calendar
Assessment Deadlines and Dates
Academic Program Assessment Cycle
Each academic program assesses their complete set of program student learning outcomes (PSLOs) over a 3-year cycle. Throughout the cycle, programs implement changes to improve student learning.
Annual reports assess the efficacy of those changes.
Programs determine their own reporting schedules for the 3-year cycle. Example: Program A has 4 PSLOs.
Year 1 = New assessment data for PSLOs 1 and 2 reported, along with comparisons to previous PSLOs 1 and 2 data, to show the efficacy of any programmatic changes made as the result of the last assessment of these PSLOs
Year 2 = PSLO 3 reported, along with comparison to previous PSLO 3 data, to show the efficacy of any programmatic changes made as the result of the last assessment of this PSLO.
Year 3 = PSLO 4 reported, along with comparison to previous PSLO 4 data, to show the efficacy of any programmatic changes made as the result of the last assessment of this PSLO.
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | |
| PSLO 1 |
Assessed success of previous programmatic improvements evaluated |
implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements | implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
Assessed success of programmatic improvements evaluated |
| PSLO 2 |
Assessed success of previous programmatic improvements evaluated |
implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements | implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
Assessed success of programmatic improvements evaluated |
| PSLO 3 | implementation of previously agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
Assessed success of previous programmatic improvements evaluated |
implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements | implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
| PSLO 4 |
implementation of previously agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
implementation of previously agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
Assessed success of previous programmatic improvements evaluated |
implementation of agreed-upon programmatic improvements |
General Education Program Assessment Cycle
UMN Morris’s General Education assessment program gathers data on each category over a 3-year cycle. Data are gathered from a selection of the largest General Education courses using the same or comparable assessment tools across various courses.
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |
| Year 1 |
Humanities (HUM) |
International Perspective (IP) Social Science (SS) |
| Year 2 |
Intellectual Community (IC) |
Writing for the Liberal Arts (WLA) |
| Year 3 |
Human Diversity (HDiv) |
Foreign Language (FL) |
Campus Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Cycle
UMN Morris’s Campus Student Learning Outcomes (CSLOs) are assessed annually through their correspondence to academic Program Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs). Co-curricular assessment of CSLOs takes place independently.
- UMN Morris’s co-curricular programs under Student Affairs are Intercollegiate Athletics; Equity, Diversity, and Intercultural Programs; Residential Life, Student Activities; and Community Engagement.
- Co-curricular programs underAcademic Affairs are Academic Enrichment and Career Services; Briggs Library; Office of Academic Success, and the Writing Center.