Art Annual Assessment 06 (Ac)

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Annual Assessment Report: June 1, 2005May 31, 2006

Unit: Department of Art

UTPA Mission: The University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) serves the higher education needs of a rapidly growing, international, multiculturalpopulation in the South Texas Region. The University preserves, transmits and creates knowledge to serve the cultural, civic, and economicadvancement of the region and the state. The University provides students advanced instruction in academic programs offered through innovativedelivery systems that lead to professional certification, and baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees. Through teaching, research, creativeactivity and public service, UTPA prepares students for lifelong learning and leadership roles in the state, nation and world community.

Division: Academic Affairs Unit Head: Richard Hyslin 05-06Revised: Anthony Crisafulli 06/07

Unit Mission:The Art Department of University of Texas-Pan American serves the higher educational needs of a rapidlygrowing, international, multicultural population in the South Texas Border Region. The Department iscommitted to offering a comprehensive range of state of the art courses, facilities, and programs that lead to

professional certification, baccalaureate, and masters degrees. The department facilitates contributions of

professional quality, contemporary creative work from both students and faculty to local, regional, national andinternational audiences. In order to achieve this mission, the department imparts knowledge, skills of the hand,

critical thinking ability, and individual creativity while immersing students in the cultural and artistic heritage of

Mexico, the Southwestern United States, and Latin America. Through teaching, research, creative activity and

public service, the Art Department is dedicated to preparing students for lifelong learning and leadership roles in

a global society.


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Annual Assessment Report, June 1, 2005May 31, 2006

Unit Goal: The Art Department will provide a variety of quality academic programs that cultivate active learning, critical thinking, and interdisciplinaryperspectives.

Link to UTPAGoal(s):

1: Ensure Undergraduate Student Access and Success2: Enhance Graduate Education and Research

Unit Objective(Priority: #1 is

highest)

Link toUTPA

Objective

Expected Outcome Assessment Criteria,Evaluation Methods

Assessment Results(Use actual data to

describe annualperformance)

Use of Results(What change was

made?)

Curriculum revision basedon Art Student LearningOutcomes assessment(Action Priority: 1)

1,2,3,4,6 100% of Art courses willintegrate Student LearningOutcomes concepts andactivities into syllabi bySpring 2006.

Students will take artcourses in the appropriate

order

Faculty Survey none No survey conducted

The New Chair of the ArtDepartment, AnthonyCrisafulli, shall conduct asurvey of Faculty with regardto this issue and returndefinitive results. 2006-2007

Maintain and improve workspaces and equipment(Action Priority: 2)

1,2,3,4,5,6 100% of faculty wil l reportadequate facilities

A facilities evaluation form willbe circulated among thefaculty. 100% of the facultywill rate the quality of theirfacility as at least adequate.

none No evaluation form created or circulated.

The New Chair of the ArtDepartment, AnthonyCrisafulli, shall conduct asurvey of Faculty with regardto this issue and returndefinitive results. 2006-2007

Initiate visiting artistprogram

1,2,3,4,6 2 visiting artists will visitstudents and give lectures

Faculty will rate studentexposure to current artpractice at above averagelevels on faculty programevaluation form.

B.F.A. Evaluations of studentoutcomes will show studentawareness of contemporaryart practice and critical theory.

None

Note: Two visiting artists gavelectures and studio visits forgraduate students not to BFAStudents

No evaluations of these visitswere conducted.


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Unit Goal: Provide effective student recruitment, development, retention, and placement programs designed to promoteand serve a diverse student population.


1: Ensure undergraduate student access and success

Unit Objective(Priority: #1 is highest)

Link toUTPA

Objective





made?)

Update Web site 1,4, 6 Web site is updated andimproved

100% Faculty will show anabove average rating for website on faculty programevaluation form.

No evaluation form was createnor distributed.

Minor revisions were made tothe content of the web siteregarding faculty andprograms.

Web site will be redesignedFall 2006 and material added.(A. Crisafulli)

Design and Print Recruitmentmaterials

1,4, 6 A poster and advert isementpostcard will be designedand produced

100% Faculty will show anabove average rating forrecruitment materials onfaculty program evaluationform.

none Some materials weredesigned but neither,approved, produced ordistributed.

Recruitment materials will bedesigned and print Fall 2006.These materials shall bemailed to students, schools

and other Universities. (ACrisafulli)

Learning Communities(Action Priority: 2)

20 percent increase innumber of LearningCommunities coursesoffered in Spring 2006

By Spring 2006, identify andinvolve more Art Departmentfaculty in the teaching ofLearning CommunitiesCourses.

By Spring 2006: 20%increase in number of learningcommunities courses offeredby the Art Department.

none One new learning communitywas developed betweenCeramics and English. Thislearning community had to becancelled due to faculty leave.


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Unit Goal:Facilitate excellence in scholarship, research, and/or creative activities for the enhancement of knowledge that can be sharedwith the public through presentation, publication, or performance.


1: Ensure Undergraduate Student Access and Success2: Enhance Graduate Education and Research

Unit Objective(Priority: #1 is highest)

Link toUTPA

Objective





made?)

Research productivity(4)

2, 5 Using data for AY 2004-2005, establish thebaseline for the level ofscholarly productivity.

The official baseline forscholarly productivity byacademic programs willbe established by spring2006.

None The department will trackthe professional activesof all faculty throughoutthe year. (A Crisafulli)

Increase the level ofresearch expendituresduring AY 2005-2006by 10% over AY 2004-2005.

None Faculty needs to submita list of plannedresearch activitiestogether with proposedbudget estimates so thatwe can see what budgetlevels are needed.

This assessment report should be connected to the Department Mission statement and the Student Learning Outcomes more closely sothat our evaluation results from the SLO evaluations can be more relevant to the planning and assessment process.

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Art Annual Assessment 06 (Ac)