Ashley Finley, Senior Director of Assessment and Research for the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the leading national association concerned with the quality of undergraduate liberal education, was on the Hesston College campus Jan. 9 for a faculty in-service. The faculty spent the day discussing how to evaluate student learning on the newly revised Hesston College Outcomes and how to develop essential assignments for learning. Hesston College instructors use indirect assessment tools regularly to see how the college measures up on benchmarks and identify places for improvement. “Washington Monthly” magazine used results from the 2009 Community College Survey of Student Engagement and graduation rates to name Hesston College the number 2 two-year college in the country in 2010. Hesston conducts the CCSSE every three years. Pictured from front left are Maria Day, Spanish instructor; David LeVan, business instructor; Finley; and Tami Keim, Education instructor.