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Accountability

Accountability encompasses the responsibility to study and communicate to external and internal audiences whether the institution is accomplishing the goals it and the public have established.  As a publicly funded university, UCLA has a number of interested parties to which it reports:   students, their parents, the state Legislature and executive branch, federal funding agencies, and accrediting bodies.  AIM has a dual role in this environment.  It makes every effort to find and highlight accomplishments.  But it also must maintain what the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the institution's primary accrediting agency, calls a "culture of evidence".  That is, AIM needs to provide an ongoing feedback loop to the institution about processes that are working well and those that need improvement.

Many audiences specify the accountability measures in which they are interested.  These can range from input measures, such as number of faculty or admissions, to outputs such as degrees.  In other cases, AIM contributes to developing the measures.   In both cases, however, AIM attempts to work with users to ensure that definitions are clear and meaningful.  It also provides supplemental information as necessary to fully represent the institution's efforts and accomplishments.

Web resources for readers interested in selected accountability issues include:

Student Outcomes: UCLA has one of the highest undergraduate graduation rates among US public research universities. Several reports on student outcomes at UCLA can be found in the enrollment reports table of contents. Additional information about graduate student outcomes appears on the Graduate Division's website in the annual report.

Program Quality. The Undergraduate Council of the UCLA division of the Academic Senate developed a summary report that is maintained for committees undertaking periodic examinations of the undergraduate programs. The information in the Graduate Division's annual report supports reviews of graduate programs.

Instructional Activity Reporting: The policies and procedures that govern how AIM collects teaching data and credits teaching activity to campus departments can be found in AIM's Enrollment and Instructional Activity Reporting Handbook. The results of a systemwide review of past instructional activity reporting, with recommendations for future changes, are in the report of the UC Systemwide Task Force on Faculty Instructional Acivities.

See also:
Graduation and Retention Reports
Instruction
Summer Instruction
Report of the UC Systemwide Task Force on Faculty Instructional Activities
Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
UC Partnership Agreement with the State
Current Fees and Fee Descriptions