Makiko Imamura (Ph.D. in Communication Studies) is the Vice Provost for Institutional and Educational Effectiveness and Professor of Communication at Saint Mary’s College of California, serves as the Accreditation Liaison Officer, and is an ALA alumni. Her previous leadership roles include the Director of Assessment and Educational Effectiveness, Chair of Core Curriculum, and Director of Faculty Development. In her current position, Dr. Imamura oversees the Office of Institutional Research, Office of Assessment and Educational Effectiveness, Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching, Core Curriculum, Program Review including co-curricular and administrative reviews. While in the position of the Director of Assessment and Educational Effectiveness, she co-led the program review revision process with the Chair of the Program Review Committee, spearheaded the design and launch of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching, and redesigned the assessment process and protocol for the undergraduate Core Curriculum to focus on finding and closing equity gaps in student learning. In the past three years, Dr. Imamura led three sponsored assessment projects funded by Explorance Global, as well as was a recipient of the Spotlight on Humanities grant funded by the National Endowment of Humanities.