MISSION - Institutional Research and Effectiveness

The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness manages and directs institutional research activities, oversees and coordinates institutional assessment and compliance procedures; and designs and maintains information communication technology tools for use by faculty and staff in pursuit of their effort to improve the delivery of educational programs, educational support services and administrative support services.

Institutional Research and Effectiveness is an Office of Academic Affairs

serving the Mission of the University of South Carolina Sumter in the following ways:

Gathering, evaluating, archiving, and reporting all institutional data

for external agencies, including governmental and non-governmental accrediting agencies

Gathering, evaluating, archiving, and reporting all institutional data

 for internal needs, including internal research projects, and long-term planning and forecasting

Serving as liaison with the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education,

the Southern Commission of Colleges and Schools

 and other external accrediting agencies

Serving as the campus resource for assessment activities and legislative interpretation

Conducting web site development, training and management to integrate, and streamline,

faculty and staff needs with information communication technologies