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KEYNOTE
"Making Assessment Easier with the Integrated Assessment Model: A Pathway to Student Success"

We all know we should do assessment and we recognize that assessment is important to improving the programs and services we provide our students. This interactive session will explore the Integrated Assessment Model. It was developed to provide a simple and streamlined process that will fold assessment into every aspect of your current work, improving the services you provide to students and ultimately creating a more seamless process for assessing co-curricular student learning. Participants will learn each step of the model to their unique campus environment.

INTERACTIVE SESSION
Sustaining a Culture of Evidence in Student Affairs

It is impossible to develop and sustain a culture of evidence in student affairs without commitment, consistency, connection, and communication. Student affairs divisions must develop a culture of evidence to support the decision-making processes of the division and demonstrate the impact of its services on student learning and success. A strong and sustained culture of evidence is vital to any student affairs organization and does not happen without hard work and intervention. This session will explore these topics and provide best practice examples for participants to model on their campuses as they move the assessment discussion to the next level.

Dr. Lance Kennedy-Phillips is Associate Vice Provost for Institutional Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining UIC, Lance served as founding Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Student Life at The Ohio State University. In this role he was charged with researching the factors that influence student retention, graduation and achievement of student outcomes . Lance has held faculty positions at Ohio State University, Clemson University and DePaul University teaching graduate level courses in research methods, strategic planning and assessment practices in higher education. Lance is a nationally recognized speaker on topics related to outcomes assessment, higher education policy, strategic planning, organizational learning, and research methods. In 2011 he served as co-editor of the book Qualitative & Quantitative Research: A Mixed Methods Approach in Higher Education. Lance has authored or co-authored nearly 20 book chapters and peer reviewed publications. He is an active member of both the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Recently, he served as National Co-Chair for The NASPA Assessment, Research, and Evaluation Knowledge Community from 2010-2013 and Director of the Foundations I Institute for the Association for Institutional Research from 2008-2012. Lance earned both his master’s and doctoral degree at the University of Nebraska.