At many colleges and universities, the introduction of a new assessment project is met with something less than enthusiasm by faculty. At St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, however, university involvement in the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment (MSC)—a partnership among AAC&U, the State Higher Education Executive Officers association (SHEEO), and twelve state higher education systems with eighty-eight participating two- and four-year public campuses—has been primarily a bottom-up effort, led largely by faculty members.
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