Mathews, Geoffrey S.2017-09-012017-09-012017-03-24Mathews, G. S. (2017, March). Engaging science faculty in program assessment: planting seeds and cultivating growth. Poster session presented at the Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI.http://hdl.handle.net/10125/48522This poster describes strategies to build faculty capacity in curriculum design and alignment and ways to plant the seeds for faculty collaboration and engagement in program assessment within the newly formed Astronomy BA & Astrophysics BS program in an effort to address the challenge of the difficulty students face in engaging faculty in discussion and planning of teaching and learning due to the nature of the program schedule. This poster provides personal insights and observed impact from efforts to effect change. In addition to providing examples in skill mapping, writing rubrics, curriculum alignment, and course deisgn, effective ways to engage willing faculty in using course assignments to investigate progress towards key student learning objectivese are also outlined.1 pageengCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)student learning outcomescurriculum maprubricsfaculty engagement in assessmentprogram learning assessmentinstitutional learning assessmentPresentation