Assessment of student academic achievement is linked closely to and directly supports the mission of Phillips Community College.

Our Mission

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas is a two-year college serving the people of Eastern Arkansas. Through robust partnerships, the College is committed to building stronger communities by delivering quality, affordable education for college transfer and work skills training. We provide multiple services and support to ensure student access with success and encourage the pursuit of knowledge and life-long learning striving to build a foundation for a better life for all.

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What is Assessment?
Assessment is the ongoing process of establishing clear, measurable, expected outcomes of student   learning; systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and using the resulting information to understand and improve student learning throughout the College.

Assessment promotes quality across the institution by providing evidence to guide effective decision-making regarding institutional changes, programmatic changes, and classroom teaching modifications.   

Three key purposes of assessment:
  1. To Inform - Assessment activities show a clearer picture of what is really happening in a program and inform others of program contributions.
  2. To Improve - This evaluation is formative. Assessment activities provide a feedback loop to help shape or form better programs and services.
  3. To Prove - This evaluation is summative. Assessment activities provide evidence to sum up what a program is accomplishing and provide persuasive indicators to students, faculty, staff, and the  community.

Institutional Assessment


Division of Arts and Sciences


Division of Allied Health and Nursing


Division of Applied Technology


Division of Business and Information Systems


  • Identification and prioritizing of assessment goals
  • Adapting the referral form so that it is used in a more comprehensive way
  • Examination of the current advising system
  • Establishing an Assessment webpage for publishing assessment outcomes, information, and resources
  • Publication of division and institutional assessment outcomes
  • Increased interdivisional communication and cooperation to achieve assessment and other goals
  • Examination and modification of documents used to identify learning outcomes
  • Clarification of divisional roles in assessment
  • Increased knowledge of divisional and student service responsibilities toward student assessment
  • Greater desire by faculty and administrators to gauge student learning outcomes and use data to make decisions contributing toward better instruction
  • Cooperative effort of divisions within the College and an appreciation for each division's role in assessment
Program Program Review Year
Cosmetology 2024
Criminal Justice 2024
Early Childhood Education 2025
General Technology 2020
Graphics Communication 2024
Medical Professions Education 2024
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