Academic Affairs & Institutional Effectiveness

Institutional Effectiveness (IE) is the college's hub for ensuring that planning, assessment, and decision-making are grounded in evidence and aligned with the institutional mission. The division leads systematic, ongoing processes to measure how well the college is achieving its goals and uses those results to drive continuous improvement in programs, services, and operations. Reflecting national best practices, IE integrates institutional research, assessment, planning, and accreditation so that evaluation activities are coordinated rather than siloed, and data inform choices about student success, resource allocation, and strategic priorities.

Core responsibilities include oversight of accreditation and compliance, assessment of student learning and administrative effectiveness, curriculum and program review, course evaluations, and institutional research and reporting. The IE office coordinates academic program assessment and administrative evaluation, manages fact books and common data sets, supports general education and program review cycles, and provides planning and decision-support analyses to campus leadership. PC's IE area supports reporting and analytics, scheduling and curriculum processes, program viability analysis, and ongoing strategic planning—transforming data into useful information and integrating it into institutional decision-making and policy development.