Teagle Assessment Scholar Through the Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts
Joint leadership of Wabash's Centre of Enquiry and HEDS will promote new collaborations for assessing student learning and promoting institutional effectiveness
Wabash Higher professor Charles F. Blaich has been appointed managing director of the Higher Didactics Data Sharing (HEDS) consortium.
HEDS is a consortium of private colleges and universities that supports member institutions through the drove and sharing of national comparative data needed for effective strategic planning. Its 135 members are premier individual colleges and universities with an emphasis on liberal arts education.
Blaich is currently Manager of Inquiries at the Middle of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. Dr. Blaich will continue to serve the Heart of Enquiry as its director, a position he has held since 2002. The Center of Inquiry collaborates with institutions across the country to gather and utilise evidence to strengthen liberal arts education.
The Center of Inquiry's groundbreaking Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Didactics is a large-calibration, longitudinal study investigating critical factors that affect the outcomes of a liberal arts education. Blaich besides directs the Eye'southward Teagle Assessment Scholar Program, which identifies and develops people who have the knowledge, technical skills, social prowess, and political savvy necessary to aid colleges and universities use evidence to strengthen the impact of liberal arts pedagogy for students
Blaich'southward leadership of both the Center of Inquiry and HEDS will pave the way for great progress and efficiency in learning assessment.
"The aim of the partnership is to link the purposes of our Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts and HEDS, creating synergies between the Centre and its national work in assessment with its Teagle Scholar programme and the information gathering power of HEDS," said Wabash Dean Gary A. Phillips. "This is a major moment for the College."
"The collaboration with HEDS makes the Centre an even stronger national influence and an increasingly important platform for strengthening liberal arts education through careful cess and analysis," added Wabash President Patrick E. White. "This partnership is a testament to Dr. Blaich's reputation and work, and it is another step in the actualization of the full promise of the Middle."
"Charlie Blaich is a nationally prominent higher-education researcher who designed and administered the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Pedagogy and the Teagle Cess Scholar plan," Susan Canon, chair of the HEDS Board of Directors, said. "These efforts have generated an unprecedented amount of assessment information for participating institutions equally well as the new mechanisms for helping institutions utilize the data to improve student learning. Nosotros are thrilled about having Charlie apply his considerable talents and energy to new and existing HEDS initiatives."
In Nov, Blaich received the Council of Independent Colleges' Award for Academic Leadership at a national conference for chief academic and fiscal officers. The prestigious laurels is given past the CIC to a nationally recognized educator for leadership in assisting private college chief academic officers in their work.
"I believe that HEDS can both have bang-up affect and assume a national leadership role in higher education by expanding its services to help member institutions more fully use HEDS data for institutional improvement," Blaich said. "The Heart's approach of creating cross-institution communities of exercise for using assessment data tin likewise be applied to working collaboratively on institutional cost analyses, retentivity, and other institutional needs connected with the kinds of data that HEDS institutions get together and share."
Blaich will retain his position at Wabash's Center of Inquiry equally he takes on the duties of HEDS manager. Working with the HEDS board of directors, staff, and membership, his initial tasks will be to review current services and products HEDS members receive, to identify initiatives related to ii or iii priorities from the HEDS Strategic Plan for recommendation to the membership at its June 2011 annual meeting, and to place a new multi-institution national project for the consortium to develop and implement.
HEDS assists member institutions in planning, management, institutional enquiry, decision-support, policy analysis, educational evaluation, and assessment. HEDS fulfills its mission by assembling, analyzing and sharing mutually agreed-upon and regularly updated historical information about fellow member (and other) institutions, by offering professional development opportunities through a network of colleagues at other member institutions, and by providing other services including special studies, inquiry reports, fellow member conferences and workshops and advisory services.
Source: https://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=8567
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