Mission & Purpose

The mission of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) is to provide leadership and assistance in developing and overseeing processes designed to enhance the effectiveness of programs and services at Baylor University. Toward that end, IE has five primary responsibilities:

• To facilitate strategic planning across the university
  
• To assist with assessment of educational programs and administrative services for the purpose of continuous improvement
  
• To provide professional and organizational development opportunities, including help with continuous improvement
  
• To monitor the university's compliance with accreditation standards
  
• To work in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Research & Testing for the gathering of information for decision making.

Please visit these sites for more details:

Strategic Planning -- Information about operational requests and major strategic proposals

Assessment -- Information about academic and administrative assessment

Baylor 2012-- Information on the status of key initiatives of Baylor's vision statement

Professional and Organizational Development (POD) -- Link to the POD website for information about upcoming professional development opportunities and organizational development consulting services

Institutional Research & Testing -- Link to the website of the Office of Institutional Research & Testing. Contains statistical reports about university operations (academic & administrative)