campus partner(s)

Whittier College

state(s)

CA

amount

$150,000

initiative

Outcomes and Assessment

award date

05.2008

project director

Lisa Harris Bortman

Whittier College

Grant Summary

$150,000 over 36 months to develop an assessment data management system (DSpace software) that will provide an accessible, query-able, and relational set of institutional databases for use by individual faculty, as well as academic and administrative departments. The College will test the system's usability by addressing two areas of concern: improving under-represented minority students' performance in math, science, and writing gateway courses, and measuring the impact of community-based learning initiatives on student learning and engagement.