Overview
Academic assessment is led by Faculty Assessment Organizers (FAOs), with one FAO appointed for each undergraduate major, stand-alone minor and graduate program.
As assessment organizers, FAOs facilitate the assessment activities of their programs, including:
- the assessment of at least one program learning outcome annually
- discussion of findings, including the identification of any actions suggested by the findings
- implementation of resulting actions, including any that address the assessment strategy itself
- development of a summary report that is shared with the school dean and the Periodic Review Oversight Committee (PROC)
- the review, dissemination (to colleagues), and implementation of PROC feedback as appropriate
FAOs also facilitate academic program review, a comprehensive , peer-review based review that each program undertakes once every seven years.
For some majors, FAOs are also the Undergraduate Chair.
In conducting this work, FAOs are supported by their school-based assessment coordinators.
FAOs and Undergraduate Chairs
Unless otherwise indicated, FAOs are also Undergraduate Chairs (UG Chair; only majors have chairs).
School of Engineering
- Bioengineering: Victor Munoz
- Computer Science & Engineering: Florin Rusu
- Environmental Engineering: Tom Harmon
- Materials Science & Engineering: Christopher Viney
- Mechanical Engineering: Jian-Qiao Sun
School of Natural Sciences
- Applied Mathematics: Roummel Marcia (FAO), Lei, Yue (UG Chair)
- Biological Sciences: Marcos Garcia-Ojeda (FAO), Jennifer Manilay (UG Chair)
- Chemical Sciences: Hrant Hratchian (FAO), Erik Menke (UG Chair)
- Earth Systems Science: Teamrat Ghezzehei
- Physics: Jay Sharping (FAO), Lin Tian (UG Chair)
- Environmental Science & Sustainability Minor: Teamrat Ghezzehei
- Natural Sciences Education Minor: Mayya Tokman
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
- Anthropology: Anneeth Kaur Hundle (FAO), Robin DeLugan (UG Chair)
- Cognitive Science: Michael Spivey (FAO), Jeff Yoshimi (UG Chair)
- Economics: Glynis Gawn (FAO), Rowena Gray (UG Chair)
- Global Arts Studies: Ken Yoshida (FAO) Maria DePrano (UG Chair)
- History: Susan Amussen (FAO), Sean Malloy (UG Chair)
- English: Nigel Hatton (FAO), Matthew Kaiser (UG Chair)
- Management and Business Economics: Justin Hicks (FAO), Greg Wright (UG Chair)
- Political Science: Haifeng Huang
- Psychology: Anna Song (FAO), Sarah DePaoli (UG Chair)
- Public Health: Andrea Joyce (FAO), Mariaelena Gonzalez (UG Chair)
- Sociology: Irenee Beattie
- Spanish: Virginia Adan-Lifante
- American Studies Minor: TBD
- Chicano/a Studies Minor: Virginia Adan-Lifante
- Community Research and Service Minor: Robin DeLugan
- Philosophy Minor: Jeff Yoshimi and David Jennings
- Writing Studies: Paul Gibbons (FAO), Anne Zanzucchi (Degree Program Lead)
College One
- Core 1 - Tom Hothem
Graduate Groups and Emphasis Areas within the Individual Graduate Program*
- Applied Mathematics: Harish Bhat
- Biological Engineering and Small-Scale Technologies (BEST)*: Kara McCloskey
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology: Erik Menke
- Physics: Linda Hirst
- Cognitive & Information Sciences: Ramesh Balasubramaniam
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science*: Paul Maglio
- Environmental Systems: Marc Beutel
- Mechanical Engineering*: Ashlie Martini
- Political Science: Tom Hansford
- Psychological Sciences: Deborah Wiebe
- Social Sciences - Public Health*: Paul Brown
- Sociology: Zulema Valdez
- Quantitative & Systems Biology: Mike Cleary
- Interdisciplinary Humanities: Anne Zanzucchi
Last updated September 19, 2017
