Higher education stakeholders want students to succeed. Whereas the term student success is easily spoken among these stakeholders, it is more complex to define, measure, and improve. Additionally, the same stakeholders may have different ideas of what student success means and what programs and services best support students toward success. In…

Organizational core values set the foundation for defining an organization's purpose and direction. Focusing on core values is important because it can sometimes be easy to forget why an organization exists and overlook its true purpose. Educational leaders and stakeholders should embrace their institution's core values as way for their…

Is assessment a top-down bureaucratic mandate, an undertaking that seems to have little to do with improving practice, an inauthentic activity that frustrates and disempowers, an afterthought? Or is it a process embraced and enacted together by all stakeholders as a means to learn and grow and enact change in the world? The authors of the…

In the United States, some professions are anchored by certifications and licensures to demonstrate an individual is qualified to practice in that professional domain. Broadly speaking, licensures are non-academic credentials required by federal or state law for individuals to practice in that field (Gilmore and Williams 2007). In contrast,…

Following a set of state meetings held throughout fall 2020, the Virginia Education Assessment Collaborative (VEAC) decided to offer a mini-conference in November 2020 to round out offerings and to buttress conversation around topics of high need and interest to Educator Preparation Providers (EPPs). Leveraging the familiar process of the…