Quality Assurance & Institutional Research
Duties and Responsibilities
In order to accomplish its goals and objectives, the Quality Assurance and Institutional Research Center carries out a number of activities including the following:
- monitoring and evaluation of academic integrity;
- evaluation of faculty members’ performance standards;
- setting standardized procedures for course and program development in line with the CAA standards;
- conducting an annual appraisal of the colleges’ plans and achievements;
- organizing awareness-raising seminars to help explain the principles of quality assurance to AAU faculty and staff;
- proposing remedies for gaps in performance;
- providing training in the use of information resources;
- providing information and expertise in the areas of assessment, strategic planning, and public accountability;
- providing data analysis, decision support, and institutional effectiveness information;
- providing a variety of data about faculty issues including teaching loads, course enrollment, department faculty distribution, comparative and equity salary and analyses of staffing trends and salaries;
- providing analytical support for enrollment management including enrollment patterns, trends, history, projections, and attendance patterns (student persistence, class cancellation rates, and retention), diversity, and grade distribution.
