Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier named UW-Green Bay assessment coordinator
Please join the Office of Academic Affairs in congratulating Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier as the 2020-2022 Assessment Coordinator (AC). Pilmaier has been with UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus since 2009 and an Associate Prof. of English and Women’s and Gender Studies since 2015. In her role as AC she will oversee assessment efforts carried out by the University, and collaborate with various offices across the institution, including the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Student Success and Engagement, Institutional Strategy and Effectiveness, General Education Council, and University Assessment Committee.
Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier
Murrenus Pilmaier was the institutional assessment Coordinator for the UW Colleges from 2012-2016. In this role she oversaw the entire assessment program for the UW Colleges (which included departmental and campus assessment), worked closely with the Office of Academic Affairs, the Senate Assessment Committee and the Senior Information Manager, as well as other student-focused offices in the institution, and introduced and helped to implemented a variety of initiatives that ensured that we maintained national best practices for educational excellence.
As the public face of assessment at the UW Colleges, she frequently presented the work to institutional, national and regional conferences and was interviewed by the HLC whenever they visited the institution. Murrenus Pilmaier views assessment as a recruitment tool and hopes it will ensure that our students receive an equitable experience via standardized learning outcomes (discipline-specific) that focus on student learning rather than arbitrary/antiquated measures of knowledge. She has worked with TRIO and Pre-College Initiatives, better incorporate the LEAP initiatives more deliberately in department learning outcomes, as well as various work within UW Colleges Assessment. She received her Ph. D. in The British Novel and Twentieth-Century British Literature from Marquette University.
