About Institutional Research & Evaluation

Institutional Research and Evaluation (IR&E) includes two major areas of responsibility: Institutional Research, and Evaluation and Assessment. The principal activities associated with each area are as follows: 

Institutional Research   Evaluation and Assessment
  • Conducting regular surveys of students, faculty, staff, and alumni

  • Preparing and submitting college data to external agencies

  • Providing internal data and reports to committees and managers

  • Guiding college data procedures

  • Maintaining an informative website
  

  • Leading the College’s program of assessment

  • Assisting with course evaluations

  • Guiding student evaluations of teaching for faculty reviews

  • Supporting academic program reviews

  • Assisting with grant project evaluation planning
Staff:    

Jo Beld, beld@stolaf.edu
Director, Evaluation and Assessment
Professor of Political Science
(507) 786-3910

Susan Canon, canon@stolaf.edu
Director, Institutional Research
(507) 786-3647

  


Scott Godfrey, godfreys@stolaf.edu
Research Associate, IR&E
(507) 786-3390


Anna Scaramuzza, scaramuz@stolaf.edu
Office Coordinator, IR&E
(507) 786-3061



IR&E Annual Reports:

2010-11, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08

Annual Report Archive:

Academic Research & Planning: 2005, 2004, 2003

Institutional Research & Planning: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001