Institutional Effectiveness

Institutional Effectiveness is responsible for coordinating campus-wide and assisting unit-level assessment of academic programs and administrative processes to support the University’s quality improvement efforts.


The Office of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) supports the University's mission for academic and operational excellence by coordinating ongoing and systematic programmatic and student learning assessments.  IE provides services and resources to assist faculty, staff, and administrators in their participation in these data-driven institutional processes and practices.  All of these activities are oriented towards using the results to aid in decision-making and improvement of programs and services and increasing student success and institutional quality.

In addition, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness facilitates assessment activities in compliance with Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Comprehensive Standard 8.2 as defined by The Principles of Accreditation.

The institution identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves these outcomes, and provides evidence of seeking improvement based on analysis of the results in the areas below:

    • 8.2.a.  student learning outcomes for each of its educational programs
    • 8.2.b.  student learning outcomes for collegiate-level general education competencies of its undergraduate degree programs
    • 8.2.c.  academic and student services that support student success

The university has created an Institutional Assessment Framework that supports all five critical themes stated in the university's mission statement. Click here to view a copy of UofL's Institutional Assessment Framework. (PDF)