Assessment Plan
Plan for Assessment of Student Academic Achievement
I. Executive Summary
The University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire is a multipurpose institution, offering a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs and serving regionally as a center for continuing education. The physical plant includes 26 major buildings located on a 333-acre two-level campus. Instruction is furnished and degrees are granted through the three Colleges of the University--College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, and College of Professional Studies which includes the Schools of Education, Human Sciences and Services, and Nursing. The student body numbers approximately 10,400; faculty and academic staff total over 700.
The University seeks to foster the intellectual, personal, cultural, and social development of each student. It strives to provide distinguished instruction in a democratic atmosphere, bringing individual students into close contact with a faculty whose scholarly attainments and concern for teaching are able to instill a love of learning.
The General Education Program, which forms part of all baccalaureate degree curricula, contributes to the breadth of each student's education through its emphasis on the cultural heritage of a free and responsible citizenry and on the development of creative imagination, critical judgment, and skill in the interchange of ideas. Students are afforded opportunities to collaborate with faculty on research and other scholarly and creative projects. UW-Eau Claire is recognized as a Center of Excellence for Faculty and Undergraduate Student Research Collaboration.
Upon this foundation, the University builds its degree programs in liberal arts and sciences and in professional fields. Each such program is designed to impart the specialized knowledge and competencies appropriate to the particular degree, while providing for a broad overview of the entire area and an appreciation of its relationship to other fields of learning.
