How smarter assessment drives accreditation success at MVCC & Alfred State
What To Expect
As accreditation standards evolve and pressure to demonstrate institutional effectiveness increases, having the right tools and strategies makes all the difference.
In this webinar, discover how Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) and Alfred State College made their processes easier, faster, and more organized with Watermark Planning & Self-Study. Learn how both schools are handling recent changes from MSCHE and building smarter ways to track progress and plan for the future.
You’ll hear about:
- Alfred State’s flexible approach to handling accreditation changes, and how they’re staying on track in their fifth review with Planning & Self-Study.
- MVCC’s rapid six-month rollout of Planning & Self-Study and what made it work.
- How MVCC leverages the tool’s customizable features to seamlessly integrate MSCHE requirements and key elements of their existing processes.
- Simple, effective ways to manage assessment, collect evidence, and create reports without the headaches.
Presenters:
- Bradley Dixon, Coordinator of Assessment and Academic Programming, Mohawk Valley Community College
- Bridget M. Jacobs, Ph.D., Director of Assessment, Accreditation, and Program Planning at Alfred State College
About the speakers
Bradley Dixon
Bradley (Brad) Dixon has been the Coordinator of Assessment and Academic Programming at Mohawk Valley Community College (“MVCC”) in Utica, New York since April 2024. His work involves coordinating the submission of both academic and nonacademic assessment results across the college via Watermark’s Planning & Self-Study tool and coordinating curricular changes from initial proposal at the College-Wide Curriculum Committee through approval processes at SUNY (State University of New York) and NYSED (New York State Education Department). Over the past academic year, he has led MVCC through a period of rapid transformation in what assessment means to faculty and staff and has streamlined the process to be simpler, more effective, and highly collaborative in preparation for their upcoming Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) institutional accreditation visit in Spring 2027. He holds a B.S. from Hamilton College and is working towards an M.A. in Higher Education at SUNY Empire.
Bridget M. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Bridget M. Jacobs is the Director of Assessment, Accreditation, and Program Planning at Alfred State College (SUNY College of Technology at Alfred). Dr. Jacobs has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (LA), an M.A. in English from Radford University (VA), and a B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Albany. She has nearly thirty years of experience in higher education in admissions/enrollment management, grants compliance, institutional research and effectiveness, academic and organizational assessment, program development and revision, and programmatic and institutional accreditation. She has served as ALO and helped lead multiple successful institutional accreditation initiatives including self-study/reaffirmation and substantive changes at both MSCHE and SACSCOC institutions.
