HLC’s workshops offer intensive, hands-on learning opportunities for individual professionals and teams of colleagues whose work focuses on areas of student success. Under the guidance of expert practitioners, participants learn tested strategies for assessing student learning and supporting student success, while networking and sharing promising practices with peers from across the HLC region. The team workshops on assessment also provide ample time for focused collaboration among colleagues. All workshop participants leave with plans for action that can be implemented at their institutions right away to start improving processes and practices that support student success.

HLC’s workshops feature:

• Tested, evidence-based insights from experts and accomplished practitioners.
• Guided discussions about promising practices and strategies.
• Opportunities to network with other higher education professionals.

Workshop Offerings

Assessing General Education

Offered October 5–6, 2017, and February 20–21, 2018
October workshop sold out. Sign up for a chance to register early for February

Teams of 2–4 faculty and staff members learn best practices for assessment of student learning in general education programs and work with teammates to critically review the structure, philosophy and perceptions of their institutions’ existing practices.

Following the success of a pilot version offered to members of HLC’s Assessment Academy in 2016, this workshop is now open to all HLC institutions.

“I especially appreciated the team time. We were able to apply the information that we had just received and to get a lot of work done.”—2016 pilot participant

Emerging Leaders in Assessment

Offered June 18–19, 2018

Individuals with new responsibilities for assessment and those seeking to refresh their assessment skills and knowledge learn about terminology and processes that are fundamental to assessing student learning in this basic skills workshop.

“Gloria [Rogers, the workshop leader] made complicated concepts easily understandable. I appreciated that, even though we covered a great deal of material, I never felt overwhelmed with all the information.”—Winter 2017 participant

Strategic Assessment

Offered June 19–21, 2018

Teams of 5–8 institutional representatives collaborate with experienced facilitators to develop assessment plans that aim to cultivate an institutional culture committed to improving student learning.

“We appreciated having time set aside with experts in the field and other institutions who we could ask for feedback. We were able to get a lot of work done that we’ve not been able to complete at our home institution due to being spread so thin.”—Winter 2017 participant

Supporting Student Success

Offered April 7, 2018

Faculty members and those supporting the work of faculty will learn how to take an inclusive approach to establishing and sustaining a success-focused campus, by exploring potential barriers to student success, examining promising practices and devising strategies to support students inside and outside of the classroom. The content will align with HLC’s ongoing strategic initiatives to better define, measure and support student success.

“A strength of this workshop was the opportunities given to work through questions with our table. I gained valuable information from what my tablemates had already tried and their successes and failures.”—Winter 2017 participant

Workshop Leaders: HLC Senior Scholars

Susan Hatfield

Professor Emerita, Winona State University

Susan Hatfield is Professor Emerita in the Communication Studies Department at Winona State University (WSU), where she taught from 1981 to 2015. During that time, she developed and directed WSU’s assessment program, served as a department chairperson, and coordinated the First Year Student Experience. She has recently completed appointments to the Board of Visitors for the Marine Corps University and the Board of Directors of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology. Susan is currently a Trustee with the Palmer College of Chiropractic.

Gloria Rogers

Adjunct Director for Professional Development, ABET

Gloria Rogers serves as the Adjunct Director for Professional Development at ABET. She has organized 14 symposia on program assessment and accreditation that have been attended by faculty from 600 institutions around the world. In addition, she has written 35 assessment-related articles, given more than 100 invited presentations at national and international conferences, and facilitated workshops and seminars at more than 110 campuses. She has also given invited presentations, consultations and workshops in 31 countries, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar assignment in Lima, Peru.