San Jac ImprovE
ImprovE is an institutional approach to facilitating continuous improvement. It fundamentally reshapes assessment conversations between faculty, staff, administrators, and the assessment team. ImprovE brings the expertise of each into a rich, collaborative discussion about the success of our students, faculty, programs, services, and College.
WHAT IS ImprovE?
ImprovE is an entirely redesigned institutional approach to documenting continuous improvement across all instructional and support service programs. The long-standing "unit plans" or "annual assessment plans" are gone. The method leverages a generalized "plan, do, check, act" model of improvement and focuses on facilitating:
-
Just-in-time rather than annual documentation of continuous improvements
- Documenting improvements at all scopes from individual faculty and small groups to departments and the entire college
-
Collaborative reports within and across programs
-
College-wide sharing of continuous improvement successes (and failures)
-
Exploration and replication of improvements implemented by colleagues
- Engaging all college personnel in shaping the future of this method
ImprovE IS MEANT TO BE SHARED
In the spirit of collaboration, innovation, and excellence, we freely provide resources
to help any institutions or colleagues interested in this approach. All materials are offered under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 license.
We welcome others to share their own ImprovE work and resources publicly. Links to
collaborating institutions and materials are listed below.
Questions? Contact the ImprovE team at improve@sjcd.edu.
LEARN MORE ABOUT ImprovE
Implementation Tools
Conference Presentations
- Texas Association of Higher Education Assessment 2025, October 7
This presentation highlights San Jacinto College’s move from a compliance-based model to a faculty-led, collaborative approach that drives continuous improvement through the Plan–Do–Check–Act framework. It shows how ImprovE tools capture classroom innovations and turn individual efforts into college-wide learning and growth. - Anthology Elevate 2025, August 1
This presentation demonstrates how San Jacinto College brings together Blackboard Goals, Outcomes, EAC Visual Data and the ImprovE model into a unified, data-informed system for institutional effectiveness. It shows how learning outcomes and accreditation standards are mapped across 99 pathways. ImprovE represents a faculty-centered evolution from compliance to continuous, collaborative improvement.
