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        <description>workshops and conferences focusing on the assessment of student learning outcomes</description>
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            <title>2013 AIR Annual Forum</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/19382811</link>
            <category>Annual Meetings</category>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description></description>
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            <title>2013 Department and Division Chair Workshops</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/25792093</link>
            <category>Workshops</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>CIC offers the annual Workshops for Department and Division Chairs to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. Campuses are encouraged to send several department or division chairs to the workshop so that they can support one another in instituting change upon return to campus and develop stronger working relationships among institutional chairs.</description>
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            <title>2013 Institute on General Education and Assessment</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/25879481</link>
            <category>Annual Meetings</category>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The Institute on General Education and Assessment (IGEA) provides campus teams with opportunities to refine and advance general education programs and their assessment. The Institute focuses on building a campus learning culture for intentional, well-defined, and meaningfully assessed general education curricula. During the Institute, teams explore general education models, processes of redesign and implementation of highly effective practices, clarification and integration of learning outcomes, and strategies for assessment. Admission to the Institute is competitive and limited; all accredited two-year and four-year institutions are encouraged and eligible to apply.</description>
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            <title>Institute on General Education and Assessment</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/25497884</link>
            <category>Annual Meetings</category>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The Institute on General Education and Assessment provides campus teams with opportunities to refine and advance general education programs and their assessment. The Institute focuses on building a campus learning culture for intentional, well-defined, and meaningfully assessed general education curricula. During the Institute, teams explore general education models, processes of redesign and implementation of highly effective practices, clarification and integration of learning outcomes, and strategies for assessment.</description>
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            <title>MACH 2013 - Making Academic Change Happen</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/28418781</link>
            <category>Workshops</category>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>MACH 2013 will be centered around four themes: Knowing Yourself, Building a Learning Community in the Classroom, Cultivating an Allied Community of Colleagues, and Making Change Happen on Campus.  Participants will be able to identify opportunities within an academic environment for how to implement visions of academic change.</description>
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            <title>Third Annual AALHE Assessment Conference</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/23784513</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description></description>
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            <title>2013 Department and Division Chair Workshops</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/25792094</link>
            <category>Workshops</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>CIC offers the annual Workshops for Department and Division Chairs to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. Campuses are encouraged to send several department or division chairs to the workshop so that they can support one another in instituting change upon return to campus and develop stronger working relationships among institutional chairs.</description>
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            <title>9th Annual Summer Academic Assessment Institute</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/28454901</link>
            <category>Institute</category>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The NEEAN Annual Academic Assessment Institute supports college and
university faculty and administrators as they strengthen their assessment
efforts and link campus assessment processes with curriculum design,
delivery, improvement, and accreditation expectations.</description>
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            <title>HEDS Annual Conference</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/28240640</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>This year's conference will focus on assessment partnerships and institutional research.  There will be a pre-conference workshop on Sunday, June 9th that will cover leveraging faculty survey results.</description>
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            <title>Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/24568365</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>We are delighted to announce that the International Enhancement Theme Conference: Enhancement and Innovation will take place on 11-13 June 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. To mark 10 years of the Enhancement Themes, this major conference will bring together over 500 delegates from across the globe engaged in enhancing the student learning experience and will feature a series of keynote lectures from leading international experts covering the spectrum of enhancement.</description>
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            <title>Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/25497890</link>
            <category>Annual Meetings</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success is designed to help campuses and systems develop institution-wide change strategies for the benefit of all students, enabling institutions to identify areas for improvement and target interventions. Participant teams address barriers to student success and devise integrative plans to strengthen student learning'making intentional use of Essential Learning Outcomes and high-impact practices across the institution. Aiming high for all students, the Institute curriculum helps campuses to define approaches that are highly engaging to students and effective at improving the equitable achievement of outcomes. Highlighting the success of students who have historically been underserved, the program supports work to make excellence inclusive and to improve completion of degrees. It builds on research indicating that all students benefit from a set of high-impact practices and that less-advantaged students benefit even more when they participate in these practices.</description>
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            <title>5th Annual State Assessment Meeting for Florida State Colleges</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/28294899</link>
            <category>Annual Meetings</category>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>Issues will focus on the development and assessment of student learning outcomes and working sessions will include practicing how to apply assessment skills.</description>
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            <title>2013 ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27528490</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The ACPA Assessment Institute is a curriculum-based learning experience designed to ensure attendees leave with the assessment skills and knowledge necessary to develop and execute quality assessment plans on their campuses. The Institute schedule reflects this curriculum-based philosophy on assessment education: sessions build off one another and attendees learn assessment techniques within the context of pragmatic assessment questions and issues that are applicable on any campus.</description>
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            <title>2013 SHEEO Annual Meeting</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27525958</link>
            <category>Annual Meetings</category>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The Annual Meeting consists of a conference and business meeting for the CEOs of state higher education boards and commissions in the United States and Puerto Rico. This meeting attracts 85-100 attendees, both SHEEO members and the leaders of other national and regional associations with whom SHEEO works.

Preceding the Annual Meeting is the Policy Leadership Conference for current SHEEO members which will provide in-depth opportunities to share ideas and discuss issues of importance.</description>
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            <title>Assessment in the Arts Conference</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27796530</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The theme for the 2013 conference is 'A Spectrum of Possibilities,' focusing on the development of assessment of student learning, programs/degrees, and other aspects of assessment of art or design in academia.</description>
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            <title>12th Annual Assessment &amp; Collaboration Conference</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/28454972</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>This conference will focus on issues in higher education such as MOOCs, policy change, and assessment.</description>
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            <title>Submissions Due: Research and Practice in Assessment</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27525198</link>
            <category>Proposal Due</category>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>Submission guidelines can be found here</description>
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            <title>West Texas Assessment Conference</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27952989</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>The goal of this one-day conference is to bring together higher education professionals to share ideas and information about accreditation and assessment.</description>
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            <title>2013 Assessment Institute</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27649717</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
            <description>Learn about new techniques and approaches in a variety of outcomes assessment areas.  Several sessions are designed for individuals and campus teams new to outcomes assessment and others are for the more experienced practitioner.  Pre-Institute workshops will begin on October 27th.</description>
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            <title>38th Annual POD Network Conference</title>
            <link>http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4144/27538686</link>
            <category>Conferences</category>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:30:00 CST</pubDate>
            <description>This year's conference theme is Freedom to Connect -- Freedom to Risk -- Freedom to Learn.  Multiple routes, methods, and networks will be examined that allow for the creation of rich and rewarding connections as learners and educators.</description>
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