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Overview

The Institutional Effectiveness and Certification office helps Gallaudet University stay compliant with accreditation, certification, and licensure requirements. We’re also the go-to source for accurate data and reporting on a range of initiatives and goals, and play a vital role in helping the university operate effectively.

Initiatives

Serving a multicultural, bilingual academic environment, we work to ensure the rigor and excellence commensurate with Gallaudet’s reputation by:

  • Promoting a culture of critical inquiry and evidence-based decision-making.
  • Engaging students, faculty, staff, and administrators in conversations about learning inside and outside the classroom.
  • Providing leadership and coordination in assessment.
  • Ensuring excellence in academic instruction, student academic support, student development, and student services.
  • Coordinating the collection, analysis, sharing, and use of assessment data.
  • Producing evidence of student learning outcomes necessary for accrediting agencies.
  • Monitoring equity in access to the curriculum for all Gallaudet students.
  • Bringing best practices and methods of assessment to the Gallaudet community.
  • Offering professional development opportunities for faculty and staff.

 

Programs

Assessment

Assessment at Gallaudet is being developed as a critical inquiry into student learning (Maki, 2004). The Gallaudet University community recognizes the need to adopt an assessment process that advances evidence-based decisions about teaching, learning, bilingualism, diversity, campus life, academic support and administrative services. Fostered by...

Licensure

Some licensure programs may require criminal background checks, fingerprinting, and/or drug testing prior to placement in an internship or practicum. A criminal background or felony conviction may affect the student’s ability to secure a site for practicum hours. In addition, states may restrict or prohibit...

Accreditation

Gallaudet University is an accredited institution and a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)*. Gallaudet Universtiy's accreditation status is Accreditation Reaffirmed. The Commission’s most recent action on the institution’s accreditation status on June 22, 2023 was to reaffirm. MSCHE is recognized...

Meet the Team

Caroline Pezzarossi

Special Assistant to the Provost

Lisa Fisher

Instructional Design Manager

Rosanne Bangura

Senior Assessment Analyst

Michael Tota

Technical Specialist

Allison Gibbons

Education

Dual Enrollment Manager

Sydney Padgett

Associate Accreditation Coordinator

Russell Stein

Gallaudet Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute Director

Information

Contact Us

Institutional Effectiveness and Certification

College Hall 410A

(202) 559-5370

202.651.5085

Monday
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am-5:00 pm

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