As a high impact practice, the First Year Experience is designed to promote student belonging, retention, and student success. Beyond treating this course as an extended orientation, however, common intellectual experiences can equip students with the tools that they need to live and thrive in diverse communities while building intercultural posture, knowledge, and skills. This presentation will discuss proactive approaches in first year experience curriculum for a shared and inclusive commitment to community flourishing.

Cherry McCabe, Associate Provost of Curriculum & Instruction, Biola University
Tamra Malone, Chief Diversity Officer, Biola University

Ready for a candid and courageous conversation about the challenges of gathering valid and useful course-level data for use in program-level outcomes assessment? Join us to explore the ups (and downs) of using Canvas to synthesize course-level data in order to generate program-level evidence of student learning.

Kara Moloney, Academic Assessment Lead, University of California, Davis
Erica Bender, Assessment Specialist, University of California, Davis

At UCLA, the Undergraduate Research Centers offer a new course -- Research Practice 96 - Bruins Studying Bruins: Introduction to Higher Education Research through a Course-Based Collaborative Research Project -- in which students learn about outcomes assessment, the development of rubrics, and the evaluation of learning. Students assess recordings of undergraduate research presentations, and their findings inform the improvement of core competency learning across campus.

Kelly Wahl, Interim Assistant Dean, UCLA Summer Sessions, UCLA
Tama Hasson, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Research; Director, Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA