Undergraduate Studies: Academic Support and Institutional Effectiveness (USASIE)

USASIE Programs & Offices

• Academic Support Centers and Programs (ASCP)

  Academic Support Centers and Programs offer various services. Learning Support includes a variety of peer academic tutoring, supplemental instruction, and learning assistants that are offered in classes and at centers (Math Tutoring Center, Writing Center). ASCP also includes two federally-funded TRiO programs -- Student Support Services and Student Support Services-STEM – that offer financial and academic support to low-income, first-generation, and/or disabled students. Finally, Testing Services also offers student support by offering course, placement, and other testing through its six testing centers across campus.

• Director of General Education

  General Education is a university-wide program involving every college on campus and over 40 departments and programs to offer the program. The Director of General Education manages and provides campus leadership in promoting the program, including the assessment of General Education learning outcomes (GELOs), management of the WSU program of interdisciplinary courses, adjudication of student General Education Attribute Transfer Credit Petitions, collaboration with others to ensure smooth functioning of the General Education program (i.e., Gen Ed Council, USHE Gen Ed Task Force, Concurrent Enrollment, College Advisers) and other duties.

• Honors

  The Honors Program provides a university-wide home base for all intellectually curious, academically adventurous students, faculty, and staff. Honors provide supportive, high-quality, interdisciplinary experiences that develop and expand both intellectual and affective dimensions.  Honors builds habits of learning that sustain lifelong engagements with complex questions, issues, and ideas.

• Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE)

  The Office of Institutional Effectiveness provides guidance, facilitation, and oversight of academic assessment processes in support of continuous improvement and accreditation. The office supports academic program review, biennial assessment reporting, course evaluations, and other processes that provide programs with contextual data important to improvement and relevance. We work with faculty to align program-level outcomes to coursework, leveraging the Canvas learning management system when appropriate, and share the results of those alignments for faculty reflection and action. We are data-centric, both quantitative and qualitative, and work closely with the Office of Student Success Analytics. OIE provides training and consultation as needed.

• Office of Interdisciplinary Collaborations

  The Office of Interdisciplinary Collaborations is the campus hub for interdisciplinary teaching and research. It oversees the Interdisciplinary Studies major (the BIS degree), encourages the use of the prefix of UNIV for university-wide interdisciplinary courses, and also works to promote interdisciplinarity more generally. Its goal is to engage students, faculty, staff, and community members in new and creative programs and classes, open up new fields of knowledge, and help discover innovative solutions to pressing intellectual and social problems.

• Office of Learning Communities

  The first year of college can be overwhelming. A First-Year Learning Community helps make the transition to college easier with a positive support system. First-Year Learning Communities are open to all first-time students at Weber State. Special perks include easy first-time registration, connecting with students with similar interests, and specific support available only to First-Year Learning Community students. Wildcat Scholars, our most popular Learning Community, provides a structured transition to WSU for first-year students who need extra support in college English and math in their first year.