Mila Bruan, Bilingual Studies

Great job, Susan. Your leadership in evident in how you encourage and inspire your colleagues. Cheers,

Dear Susan, It is you we need to thank for your leadership and coordination of this major endeavor. – Milena Rubinstein, SLOAT member, Bilingual Studies

Hi Susan, I meant to tell you that the symposium was a great success and so much fun! I’m very proud of you! – Eileen De Freece, SLOAT member, Humanities

Susan, You are to be congratulated….. You set the atmosphere with your personality and positive attitude…. I enjoy working with you. Be Blessed. – Arzelia Said, SLOAT member, Social Sciences

Hi Susan, I know you’re getting a lot of praise from people who have much more clout than me, so I’m just sending you this personal response. Only YOU could have gotten me so involved with SLOAT, spending as much time as I did on the fall 2011 assessment and report, and spending as much time as I did on the poster board. You’re the best kind of mentor: you’re a role model and a friend. I’ve had nothing but support and guidance from you every step of the way. Thank you for making ECC a better place to work. You’re amazing!  - Margaret Botney, SLOAT member, Humanities

Hi, First of all congratulations to the winners! Way to go! Second, congratulations to all the faculty participants. Your posters were fabulous and the room was electrified with energy and excitement. Fantastic work. :-) Finally, I want to thank Susan G for her leadership and her love of the SLO process. Susan you're one of our academic angels!Thanks everyone! Warm regards and best wishes – Dr.EdytheAbdullah, President

Good morning faculty, Let me begin by stating that the Student Learning Outcomes Symposium held yesterdaywas a true showcase of the excellent work on assessment being done by faculty. The posters, video presentations and handouts were impressively prepared and each contained data that correlated to measurable course performance objectives. The engagement and enthusiasm of the faculty is evident in what you have displayed. This work adequately and appropriately represents what Middle States requires as an organized and sustainable process to assess student learning goals. At the course level, with evidence that assessment information is being used to improve teaching and learning, we are satisfying this mandate. As an aside, I opted not to vote on the best poster presentation. They were all extremely well prepared and presented and yes, I chickened out. LOL! Finally, kudos to Prof. Susan Gaulden for spearheading this initiative and providing leadership on academic assessment here at Essex. – Dr. Gibson, VP of Academic Affairs

YEAH Susan!!!! : - ) – Lynn Wilson, SLOAT member, Biology & Chemistry

Great job, Susan. – Akil Khalfani, SLOAT member, Social Sciences

Hi, Susan. I know you’re getting a lot of praise from people who have much more clout than me, so I’m just sending you this personal response. Only YOU could have gotten me so involved with SLOAT, spending as much time as I did on the fall 2011 assessment and report, and spending as much time as I did on the poster board. You’re the best kind of mentor: you’re a role model and a friend. I’ve had nothing but support and guidance from you every step of the way. Thank you for making ECC a better place to work. You’re amazing! J - Margaret Botney, SLOAT member, Humanities

Good job. I totally admire your efforts. – Pat Bartinique, SLOAT member, Humanities

Susan: Simply fabulous!!! You go Lady!!!!! – Gerald Savage, SLOAT member, Business

Hi Susan and SLOAT members: Good job, collaborative efforts bring change in the most challenging situations. Thank you. – Evadne Harrison-Madu, SLOAT member, Nursing & Allied Health

Susan: As I mentioned to you yesterday, you did a great job putting this together. As others have pointed out, it was very effective at communicating best practices toward assessment and instruction.And, it was a very pleasant time for some collegiality as well.But, then, everything you have done in this program (and, I’ve been in it since the beginning) has reflected your intelligence, foresight, and leadership, so I wasn’t the least bit surprised. – Rich Bogart, SLOAT member, Humanities

Dear Susan. Thank you so much for your hard work. None of this would have been possible without your continuous support, guidance, and enthusiasm. This symposium was informative and fun. Thank you. – Ezdehar Abu Hatab, SLOAT member, Biology & Chemistry

Brava to you for taking what could have been an onerous task and making it informative and actually fun! You’re the best!! – Barbara Pogue, SLOAT member, Humanities

Thank You Susan for your constant encouragement and support! – Carol Kushner, SLOAT member, Humanities

And here's a smashing BRAVO to you, Susan. Your leadership vision and team-building wondersmake all the difference. Best, David Berry, SLOAT member, Humanities

…and just having a moment and the opportunity to talk to one another! – Linda McDonald Carter, SLOAT member, Social Sciences

There was something very positive about seeing colleagues both old and new focused on sharing best practices for the collective good of students and college. – Gale Gage, SLOAT member, Nursing & Allied Health

My dear Susan, The SLOA Symposium today was collegial, engaging and a great success! The posters were creative and phenomenal. Kudos and Keep up the great work! – Nessie Hill, SLOAT member, Humanities

Thank you for a fun and informative event!! – Patrice Davis, SLOAT member, Social Sciences

Susan: It was pleasure to have visited the symposium. Being new at ECC, I can’t think of a better way to learn about the various disciplines overall. – Marie Girault, Chair of Bilingual Studies

Nice job Susan!! – Vickie Grosso, Nursing & Allied Health

Congratulations on a great success! You should be very proud!!– Constance Mierendorf, Administration

Thank you Susan! And thanks for the poster session. It gave me a lot of good ideas for presenting the information and future surveys. – Jennifer Wager, SLOAT member, Humanities

Dear SLOAT members,

Today, I have only4 items to share with you. They are as follows:

1) BRAVO!!!Thank you all for doing such a wonderful job - the Symposium was a smashing success in my opinion. The atmosphere in the room was so positive, collegial, encouraging,optimistic...I am truly grateful of all of the hard work that went into those beautiful posters - THANK YOU all. It is such a pleasure to work with such fantastic, capable colleagues. I was thoroughly impressed with the collective success of the Symposiumand am tremendously proud of all of you!

2) DO NOT DISCARD YOUR POSTERS - please give them to your Chairperson who will display them in your Divisional area so that anyone who missed the Symposium still can learn about the SLOAT assessment studies occurring in the Division. In this way they will also be visibleduring the Middle States team visit at the end of April.

3)Please check outthe ECCSLO Assessment website ( - the site is updated frequently...we just added an Events page today - Symposium photos will be posted soon - stay tuned...

4) So far the following 10 SLOAT members have expressed interest in going to the Middle States Conference in Philadelphia, PA on 05/03/2012:Shohreh Andresky, David Berry, Mary Ellen Carpenter, Ines Figueiras, Susan Gaulden, Evadne Harrison-Madu,Linda McDonald Carter, Patrice Davis,Rachel Pernia & Luis Salgado. If anyone else is interested (see my earlier e-mail for details), please let me know as soon as possible because I plan on submitting my group proposal to PDAC by week's end. I'm not sure how much funding will be approved - we may be able to send only some of those interested, but I'd like to send forth the names of all who would like to attend the event.

Thank you all again for your participation on and hard work forSLOAT and for your ongoing support.

Susan