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Overview

The Student Affairs Assessment Consortium is a new initiative led by NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, with the support of other student affairs associations. The Assessment Consortium is powered by the assessment and technology infrastructure of StudentVoice.

The mission of the consortium is to guide and support college and university efforts in assessment, analysis, and knowledge creation to further the practice of student affairs.

Specific goals of the Assessment Consortium:

• Coordinate assessment initiatives with a broad range of Student Affairs professional associations
• Facilitate collection of student, operational, and leadership/trend data
• Produce focused, data driven reports on mission critical issues
• Identify key trends that effect student learning and development
• Provide campuses with easy to use data analysis tools
• Benchmark campus-specific data with peer institutions
• Connect data with strategic goals and priorities for the institution

Implementing the Assessment Consortium

The Student Affairs Assessment Consortium consists of an annual campus subscription.  The annual subscription will allow for campus participation in four separate assessment projects. Each year, the Assessment Consortium will highlight different program areas for data collections and analysis. Each project will consist of data and analysis as follows:

• Operational data: Information related to staffing, facilities, and budgets
• Leadership data: Trends, issues, challenges, and best practices
• Student data: Perception and outcomes data that builds on questions uncovered from leadership data