The threat of two different assessment systems
The curriculum committee was also tasked with developing assessment mechanisms for this list of objectives. This began to head in the direction of measuring enrollment, retention...
In the meantime the college had yet to determine how to measure course and program student learning outcomes. The curriculum committee's "objectives" clearly needed to align with the learning outcomes effort. The whole "stack" needed to align from the bottom to the top, from learning in the classroom to the vision of the college.