Administration
- Evaluate resource allocation efficiency based on evidence
- Analyze and interpret institutional data and provide recommendations to make changes
- Collect, analyze and interpret information to evaluate policies and practices
- Create guidelines for effective policy-making
- Create guidelines for university/college program review and analyze program effectiveness
- Evaluate institutional goals and activities that support them
- Develop meaningful strategic plans
- Improve communication with the Board of Trustees and other stakeholders
- Help demonstrate responsiveness to community needs and concerns
- Advise how to contribute to creating a culture of excellence
- Assist with successful accreditation self-study
Faculty and Staff
- Make sure that program and course curricula align with department and university goals
- Determine program areas of strength and weakness
- Place students appropriately
- Illustrate course or program value to the university
- Help improve course and faculty evaluation processes and procedures
- Develop strategies to use results to seek foundation grants or government funding
- Help build interdisciplinary curriculum and align curricula or services across courses/programs
Students
- Help engage in a more rigorous and coordinated learning experience that will bring planned learning outcomes
- Get clear understanding of how institutional resources, and especially their tuition are allocated