Josephine Rodriguez is the Associate Provost at Western New England University. In this role, she oversees institutional assessment and accreditation efforts, faculty grants, and the Institutional Review Board. Additionally, she serves as the Accreditation Liaison Officer for WNE with the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). She has served as a peer evaluator on a couple of NECHE site teams and was one of the co-chairs of the 2022 NECHE self-study process at WNE. Her involvement in assessment and accreditation endeavors since 2008 has included strategic planning for and assessment of general education requirements, university-wide implementation of a data analytics platform, making annual department assessment reports and program reviews more meaningful, faculty and chair assessment training and support, and promotion of a culture of assessment and data transparency. She has presented at regional and national conferences on topics such as assessing general education, measuring inter-rater reliability, program assessment, and assessing co-curricular learning outcomes.