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Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to the assurance argument process in terms of planning, organization, and timetables.
• Plan the assurance argument, including the committee structure, its membership, the assurance argument timetable, campus-wide meetings and the development of the assurance argument plan.
• Orient and educate both members of the various criterion sub-committees and the campus community regarding the assurance argument process, particularly regarding the concept of institutional effectiveness.
• Inform all constituents of the progress of the assurance argument and coordinate communication among the committees.
• Monitor the entire assurance argument process including focus, research, clarification, drafting, and revision.
• Work with administration and other functioning areas on campus to schedule on-campus workshops and/or assemblies related to the assurance argument process.
• Develop a system for cataloging and storing evidence in order to build a resource depository for º£½ÇÊÓƵ’s assurance argument committees and the Higher Learning Commission visiting team. The coordinator will be assisted by resource team members and other committee members to complete this project.
• Report any non-compliance issues to the provost and upper administration.
• Oversee the final phases of the assurance argument document.
• Serve as a primary liaison to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and º£½ÇÊÓƵ to prepare, if needed, any follow-up concerns noted by the visiting team.
• Through the Office of the Provost, update upper administration and the Board of Trustees on a regular basis.
• Guide the executive committee towards producing an addendum to update the assurance argument report for the HLC visiting team.