May 18, 2025  
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog

HEA 504 - Research & Assessment in Higher Education


This course introduces assessment and program evaluation in colleges and universities. With increasingly difficult, diverse, and complex decision-making circumstances, it is essential that professionals examine assessment techniques and how these strategies may be best employed to benefit organizations and ultimately their stakeholders. Higher education (like other organizations) must use evidence for planning and linking programs, evaluating and assessing program results, and improving programs based on evaluation data. Assignments will emphasize how to perform effective, high quality assessment and program evaluations.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): matriculation in Higher Education Administration programs