Hi-C in Plain Sight · Opening Primer
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Hi-C: One Body of Work, Three Audiences

A Daley framework. It names something already true about the assessment work you're doing — one body of faculty work serves three different frameworks.

HLC
Accreditation
Higher Learning Commission · 2025 Criteria
ICCB
Program Review
Illinois Community College Board · 5-year
C
Cycle of Assessment
Daley's internal four-form cycle · annual

The connections exist on paper. Translation, not restructuring. What this workshop does is let you trace your own course through that chain — once, with a real assessment.

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What Hi-C Isn't

A few things faculty often think about assessment that aren't quite right.

Myth
"Assessment is about catching faculty who don't teach well."
Assessment looks at whether the curriculum is doing what we said it would — not at individual instructor performance.
Myth
"You only do assessment when you're up for review."
The cycle is annual at the course level. Program review draws on assessment work that's already been happening for years.
Myth
"Forms 1 through 3B are separate paperwork."
They're one cycle, four moments — plan, report, improve, verify. The same assessment moves through all four.
Myth
"HLC and ICCB want different things from us."
They want the same evidence in different formats. Hi-C is the recognition that the work you already do answers both.
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The Four-Form Cycle

The internal cycle has four forms. Each answers one question about an assessment.

1
Plan
→
2
Measure
→
3A
Improve
→
3B
Verify
⟳

Form 1 states what will be assessed and how. Form 2 reports what happened. Form 3A documents what changed. Form 3B closes the loop — does the change work? Most faculty know one or two of these forms exist. Fewer have walked the full cycle. The activity ahead is for one assessment — start to finish.

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The Alignment Repository

17
Departments
200+
Courses Mapped
6
Daley ISLOs
100%
Documented

Daley's Alignment Repository (November 2025) collects the mappings each department reported for their own courses — CSLO → DSLO/PSLO → ISLO. The mappings reflect each department's own articulation of how their courses connect to institutional outcomes. When you pick your course in the activity, the walkthrough pulls that mapping for you. Your CSLO statement is what bridges your assessment to the rest of the chain.

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Was → Now

The four forms exist because of a letter. Today they answer it — automatically.

2022
Reaffirmed with monitoring: "demonstrate a culture of ongoing, meaningful assessment" (Core Component 4.b)
2024
Interim report accepted — four-form cycle, 13 disciplines in, coordinators in place
2026
Embedded-monitoring review conducted 4/27 · outcome language pending
2031
Next reaffirmation — built on evidence you generate today
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When Is Your Review?

ICCB program review rotation — find your year.

FY27
Communications (English/Speech) · Criminal Justice · CIS · Manufacturing CNC
Entered FA26 — ICCB drafting begins Sept 2026
FY28
Mathematics · College Success (INTDSP)
FY29
Physical & Life Sciences · Accounting · Bus Mgmt
FY30
Humanities & Fine Arts · Horticulture
FY31
Social & Behavioral Sciences · Child Development · Mktg Mgt
Entering Form 3A this month: Criminal Justice · Networking · Economics · Physical Science — today's trace is literally your next form. Form 1 only so far (re-entry welcome): English · Biology.
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Institutional Memory, On File

Memory here doesn't depend on tenure — it's on file for everyone.

Chair's Report QR
The AY2025 President's Assessment Chair Report — your disciplines, your data, the committee's plan.

Everything from today lives in Brightspace: Daley Assessment → Hi-C.