A course syllabus rubric deployed at Mercy College, NY, to assist faculty with developing good syllabi and to help the curriculum committee review and provide feedback on their quality.

A collection of questions that a hiring manager may ask references provided by a candidate for a job such as a faculty position. Part of the set of documents supporting the Building a World-Class Faculty article.      Read More

A rubric for search committees to evaluate potential new faculty hires.  Part of the set of documents supporting the Building a World-Class Faculty article.    

This analytical spreadsheet is used to assist a committee with collecting, prioritizing, and planning delivery of learning goals and outcomes for students transitioning into higher education from secondary education.  Delivery in orientation, through the formal curriculum and in extra-curricular learning opportunities are considered.  Valuable sample data is included.  Please consult the first tab of the spreadsheet which contains a more detailed description and instructions for its use.   Read More

Glossary of definitions of assessment related terms with references to their sources.

This specification document provides sample data and a template for defining college/school, department/program learning goals and course outcomes.  It also provides a mechanism for interrelating all of these and including references to general education learning outcomes.

Sample report from a task force charged to define the role of the faculty member.  Specifies the characteristics that the ideal faculty member would value, how these might be operationalized, appropriate metrics to measure how well the institution is performing, and how the institution might reinforce these characteristics through awards and rewards.  This document is part of a set supporting the "Creating Congruence Between the Faculty Role and Institutional Expectations, Recognitions and Rewards" article.     Read More

This spreadsheet is used to track funded faculty lines by position control number and store information about each line, its current and past occupants.  Part of the set of documents supporting the Building a World-Class Faculty article.    Read More

A worksheet to document and track approvals of all elements of a faculty new hire contract letter. Part of the set of documents supporting the Building a World-Class Faculty article.      Read More

This white paper can be provided to a faculty group to help them consider issues around student preparation for learning, and how the curriculum might be modified to take better advantage of this.