Welcome to the Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Mission

OIE serves as an institutional resource in building and sustaining a culture of inquiry, analysis, and evidence-based decision making in the framework of fulfilling and advancing the Webster mission.

Goals

The goals of OIE are:

• to integrate the quality and accountability functions of institutional effectiveness.
• to create, capture, and share institutional knowledge for the purposes of accountability, institutional learning, and quality improvement.
• to link data and information, and where appropriate and feasible, infuse them with theory, relevance, and purpose to discover relationships and patterns.
• to guide and support stakeholders in determining what they need to know and why, how to gather the information and evidence, and how to use the information and evidence for accountability and quality improvement.