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wEDNESDAy, APRIL 18, 2012
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
SIG-6 GRADUATE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS: ADAPTING TO COMPETENCE-
BASED ASSESSMENT
Laguna Beach III
Convener: Mignon R . Jacobs, Associate Professor and Accreditation Liaison Officer, Fuller Theological Seminary
As educational institutions, graduate religious institutions face the same requirements to demonstrate educational
effectiveness and degree-appropriate learning as undergraduate institutions . In light of the current discourse about
competence-based assessment, institutions also need to ask how well their assessment practices align with institutional
mission and discipline-specific program learning outcomes . This session provides an opportunity for graduate religious
institutions (or those who offer graduate degrees) to discuss learning outcomes for advanced degrees and the implications
of assessing educational effectiveness in ways appropriate to the degree and institutional mission .
Email: Jacobs@fuller .edu
ARC OPENING PLENARy AND RECEPTION
wHy COLLEGE MATTERS MORE THAN EVER AND wHy IT MUST CHANGE – A
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOk
Catalina Ballroom
12 WHAT’S NEXT?
Welcome: Ralph A . Wolff, President, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and
Universities, WASC .
Introduction: James Donahue, President, Graduate Theological Union, and Vice Chair,
Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities, WASC .
Speaker: Claudio Sanchez, Education Correspondent, National Public Radio
The conviction that US higher education is “the best in the world” has eroded for much
of the American public, if not for educators themselves . Bridging that disconnect poses a
challenge for the higher education community . It will require attention to cost, quality, the
flaws in current practice, and the ways in which institutions communicate with the public . As
education correspondent for National Public Radio - and the parent of college-age children
- Claudio Sanchez is uniquely qualified to review the changing social and economic context in which higher education
functions and to suggest some of the potentially painful but necessary changes that may lie ahead .
Backchan.nl Moderator: Melissa Ganus, Lecturer, Seattle Community Colleges
NOTE: Seating is limited in the Catalina Ballroom . Plenary overflow seating with live feed will be located
in the Fountain Terrace room .
ARC OPENING RECEPTION
Learning Commons Lounge (Pacific Ballroom)
Generously Sponsored by
Join your colleagues, opening keynoter Claudio Sanchez, sponsors, and WASC staff at this reception welcoming you to
the 2012 WASC Academic Resource Conference . (Hors d’oeuvres will be served; cash bar .)