In lieu of a traditional glossary, this book has “Jargon Alert!” sidebars sprinkled throughout that explain some of the jargon used in the worlds of higher education, accreditation, and accountability.

1. Academic freedom
2. Accountability
3. Accreditation standards, criteria, and requirements
4. Action steps
5. Assessment
6. Attrition
7. Backwards curriculum design
8. Balanced scorecards
9. Bloom’s taxonomy
10. Brightline
11. Capstones
12. Carnegie classification
13. Chief executive officer
14. Closing the loop
15. Competency-based
16. Completion
17. Continuous improvement and continuous quality improvement
18. Critical thinking
19. Curriculum alignment and curriculum maps
20. Dashboard indicators
21. Dashboards
22. Data
23. Direct evidence of student learning
24. Environmental scan
25. Financial ratio analysis
26. Flipped classrooms
27. General education
28. Improvement
29. Indirect evidence of student learning
30. Infographics
31. Information
32. Information literacy
33. Institution
34. Institutional assessment
35. Institutional effectiveness
36. Institutional governance
37. Key performance indicators
38. Learning-centered
39. Learning outcomes, learning goals, learning objectives, and learning competencies
40. Liberal arts
41. Massive open online courses (MOOCs)
42. Metrics
43. Mission
44. Mission creep
45. Objectives
46. Operational plans
47. Peer review
48. Performance indicators and performance measures
49. Persistence
50. Quality assurance
51. Reliability
52. Retention
53. Scaffolding
54. Scholarship of teaching
55. Stakeholders
56. Strategic goals, strategic directions, and strategic aims
57. Student-centered
58. Swirl
59. SWOT analysis
60. Tactical plans
61. Teaching-learning center
62. Title IV gatekeepers
63. Transparency
64. Validity