New Faculty Orientation

In May 25th, 2001 the Academic Senate of the UPR-RP Campus established Certification 101 in order to approve a proposal of the former Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Carlos G. Ramos Bellido, for a teaching-learning curriculum for new full-time professors, teaching assistants and teachers with probationary appointments. Since then, the Center for Academic Excellence holds a three day activity called New Faculty Orientation (OPN, for its Spanish acronym) every August as a way to welcome new professors to our Campus.

Participants receive a series of institutional orientations that include presentations from different campus offices whose services are useful for their upcoming teaching experience. Also, as part of this activity, varies workshops are offered on relevant topics to their college work: Teaching and Learning Strategies, Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning, Academic Technology, Academic Research, Professional Support for Faculty, and University and the Community. The OPN provides an excellent opportunity for new professors to meet and become familiar with the staff of our campus.

For this year OPN, the OEAE prepared an online presentation of our office and services. With the support of Dr. Héctor Melendez, Resident Professor in Technology of the Center for Academic Excellence, in the following video Prof. Nadia Cordero offers an orientation to our new UPR-RP professors.

For further assistance for your upcoming experience as a Professor regarding the development of educational instruments such as rubric, tests, checklists, and such for student assessment and evaluation processes, feel free to email us at email:oeaeupr@gmail.com or give us a call to (787) 764-0000, ext. 85011, 85012, 85013 or 85014 or visit us in the Annex of the Office of Academic Planning, University Square, North Tower, Third Floor and we will be glad to help you.

We wish you all the best for your upcoming experience as a new professor in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.

Acceptance for presentation (Faculty of Business Administration Accreditation Committee) - The 2011 Assessment Institute

Since 1999, an annual assessment conference titled Assessment Institute has been held at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This renowned educational meeting is geared towards promoting the knowledge and practice of assessment in higher education. The activity brings together more than a thousand presenters and participants from institutions across the United States, as well as other countries. It is sponsored by some of the world’s assessment experts such as Trudy W. Banta and Thomas Angelo. The conference will take place from October 31 to November 1, 2011 in Indiana.

This year, the committee at Purdue University has accepted a proposal titled From Assessment to Curriculum Review Through Multidisciplinary Communities of Practice developed by members— Dr. Beatriz Rivera, Dr. Wanda Velázquez, Dr. Marta Charrón and Dr. Zoraida Fajardo—of the Faculty of Business Administration Assessment Committee (CAAE), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Their thirty-minute presentation will show how the School of Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico has been able to create communities of practice as a tool for closing the loop in assessment. A more detailed description of their presentation can be found in the following abstract.

The Office of Assessment of Student Learning—OEAE for its Spanish acronym— would like to acknowledge the exceptional teamwork carried out by members of the Faculty of Business Administration Accreditation Committee to comply with the requirements of Assurance of Learning Accreditation Standards of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) as well as the Assessment of Student Learning accreditation standard of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. We would like to stress that this activity will shed light upon the assessment processes carried out by the faculty of the School of Business Administration of the University of Puerto Rico Rio, Piedras Campus. We are very pleased by the committee’s achievement and hope that their success will encourage other members in the Campus to follow their steps and integrate their work and ideas not only into the assessment processes of the University of Puerto Rico but also in forums and activities of international scope.