Wednesday, November 23rd 2011

The process of re-affirmation: Marathon or sprint?

by Kim Vanderlinden

Many activities in life warrant the phrase – it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. And I think this saying definitely applies to the accreditation process. We work with campuses that approach their accreditation from both perspectives – some beginning years in advance and others giving themselves no more than a few months. For some [...]

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Thursday, December 17th 2009

Assessing the Mental Health of Today’s College Student

by Kim Vanderlinden

Addressing the mental health and counseling needs of students on college campuses is perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing higher education. In fact, a recent survey of senior student affairs officers revealed that students’ mental health was the top issue facing student affairs (NASPA, 2008).

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Wednesday, September 30th 2009

Join the NASPA Consortium!

by Kim Vanderlinden

After great success during its inaugural year last year, the NASPA Consortium for 2009-2010 is in full-swing as colleges and universities are signing up and getting geared up for a new year of assessment activities.  It is not too late for your campus to learn more about the Consortium and sign-up at: http://naspaconsortium.org

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Wednesday, July 29th 2009

SV Mobile Mondays start on August 17th

by Kim Vanderlinden

Out with the old technology and in with the new… As many of you know, StudentVoice got its start with PDA mobile data collection at SUNY Buffalo, so the big switch to the Apple iPod Touch marks the end of an assessment era. It is certainly bittersweet to see boxes of worn-out PDAs arriving at [...]

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Friday, January 30th 2009

Assessing student learning through rubrics

by Kim Vanderlinden

As InsideHigherEd.com explains, although Margaret Spellings is out – the push to measure and document student learning is only strengthening with efforts such as the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/23/assess. We often get asked here at StudentVoice, can a survey measure student learning? My answer to this:

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Thursday, October 9th 2008

Have you assessed your new students yet?

by Kim Vanderlinden

It’s that time of year! Have you checked in and assessed your new first-year and transfer students? Finding out how the transition to college is going for new students is critical. I remember being a first year student and the long bus ride home for my short fall break. It was at that time (no [...]

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Thursday, July 10th 2008

Campus Visit

by Kim Vanderlinden

During my years at StudentVoice, I have been most fortunate to visit many, many colleges and universities across the United States and in Canada too. The University of Toronto was one of the first campuses that I ever visited to talk about StudentVoice. Almost exactly four years ago, I was driving the QEW (crazy 4-5 [...]

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