The committee is charged to develop a recommended policy and plan for University-wide assessment of student learning in general education and in the major. The assessment of general education should be expressed in terms of abilities rather than in terms of courses, and the criteria should be applicable to all USC students. The assessment plan should include several methods, and assessment data should be useful to both individual faculty and to the faculty as a whole as a basis for improving undergraduate education.

A general plan and process for assessing student learning in the major should be useable by any academic department and should involve faculty with information to use in improving the education of students who gradaute from their programs. It should also relate to the goals and objectives of the departments' strategic plans as expressed in their reports to the Futures Committee. Information resulting from assessment of student learning in the majors might also be useful in periodic program review.

Approved by James C. Moeser, Provost, September 14, 1993