Editor's Notes

Abstract

This special issue of assessment Update profiles recipients of the 2018 Excellence in Assessment (EIA) designation: Bowie State University, Harper College, Mississippi State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Each of these institutions successfully integrates assessment practices across campus, provides evidence of student learning outcomes, and uses assessment results to guide institutional decision-making and improve student performance. More information about the EIA designation is available at the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) website (http://learningoutcomesassessment.org/eiadesignationoverview.html) and is included in Gianina Baker's NILOA Perspectives column on page 12. The five 2018 EIA honorees join a roster of fifteen other institutions who were prior recipients of the EIA designation in 2016 and 2017. Collectively, these colleges and universities demonstrate exemplary commitment to and leadership for assessment excellence. I look forward to focusing more fully on each of these five topics in Editor's Notes throughout the remainder of 2019 in Assessment Update. I also invite you to share with me specific examples of these Leadership Imperatives from your own context. Please send your ideas and feedback to shundley@iupui.edu.