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Harvey Mudd College: Data collected from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) have been used by faculty, college administrators and researchers for institutional assessment and improvement. For purposes of contextualizing and analyzing data from the study, and how the information relates to an HMC education, the Office of Institutional Research at HMC examined the College’s progress on five themes of its strategic plan, HMC 2020: Envisioning the Future: 1. Innovation, Leadership, and Impact, Especially in Engineering, Science and Mathematics 2. Focus on Experiential and Interdisciplinary Learning 3. Unsurpassed Excellence and Diversity at All Levels 4. Nurturing and Developing the Whole Person 5. Global Engagement and Informed Contributions to Society
Harvey Mudd recognized that these five initiatives within the College’s strategic plan are closely aligned with the five Benchmarks of Educational Effectiveness defined by NSSE: 1. Level of academic challenge 2. Active and collaborative learning 3. Student-faculty interaction 4. Enriching educational experiences 5. Supportive campus environment
Additional data analyses were conducted to illustrate how HMC students’ results within each Benchmark were, in fact, also a reflection of HMC’s institutional priorities, and reflect progress toward their achievement, as defined by the College’s ambitious strategic plan.
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