Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability Council

COUNCIL DESCRIPTION AND ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability Council is an advisory group focused on coordination and implementation of institution-scale, ongoing, comprehensive, and integrated planning and evaluation processes that focus on institutional quality and effectiveness and incorporate a systematic review of institutional goals and outcomes consistent with its mission. Furthermore, the Council serves as an important conduit for information sharing and issues related to accreditation, cross-divisional quality improvement projects, and institutional assessment, while ensuring initiatives are properly aligned, prioritized, and consistent with the University's strategic direction. The mission of the Council is to advise that the institution has an appropriate broad- based approach to institution-wide effectiveness that supports its mission and serves as a framework for planning with emphasis on “macro” (institutional level) aspects of university-wide planning and evaluation. The function of the council is to enhance institutional effectiveness and accountability by:

• Providing a framework and ongoing processes for all operational areas with setting goals and objectives with appropriately aligned metrics as well as assisting all operational areas with documenting the use of data to make resource decisions and allocations through examples and model practices
• Advising a rationale timeline for institutional and unit planning processes
• Coordinating and implementing the University’s participation in the institutional accreditation process
• Promoting institution-wide collaboration, coordination, and communication for increasing efficiency and transparency for institutional planning and budgeting