Student Evaluations of Instruction (SEI) Policy (Policy 39)
Approved By:
President Cheryl Green
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Revised:
12/01/1976, 08/01/1986, 03/20/2017, 06/17/2024
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- Students in each course shall evaluate the effectiveness of the instruction they received using a university-wide Student Evaluation of Instruction (SEI) process.
- The appropriate SEI survey will be distributed though the learning management system and student emails in each credit-bearing and non-credit- bearing course associated with an academic program, and for each instructor.
- Instructors may supplement university-wide SEI surveys with up to four additional questions.
- The standard period during which students will be allowed to complete SEI survey shall begin three weeks and shall end one week before the end of a course.
- SEI distribution shall be limited to students enrolled in the course at the start of the standard period, as defined in IV.
- Results will be released to faculty one week after the deadline for the submission of grades.
- The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness manages the process and systems that distribute SEI surveys and alert faculty when evaluations have been released to students.
- The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness manages the process and systems that collect, analyze, record, and publishes SEIs results.
- The University provides access to an archival database of historical reports.