Membership

CUEE members include representatives of universities and university college programs with an interest in developing and offering evaluation-related graduate courses and credentials. Treasury Board of Canada and the Canadian Evaluation Society are ex officio members of CUEE.

Current Members

List of Current Members, Institutions and Programs

Who Can Become a Member

Representatives of universities and university college programs with an interest in developing and offering evaluation-related graduate courses and credentials may become members of CUEE.

New and Renewing Members

Membership in CUEE follows the academic year, September to August, and is renewable annually. Each September, a call to existing member institutions/programs will be made by the Secretariat, soliciting their interest in renewing their membership. Membership dues will be 2,500 dollars per institution per year. These membership dues will be reviewed annually.

At the same time that a call for interest in renewing existing memberships is made, a call will be made to other institutions/programs to solicit their interest in joining CUEE. That call will include institutions/programs that have indicated an interest in CUEE or have been included in the updated inventory of graduate courses and programs in evaluation that was first conducted in 2009. Given the changing nature of courses and programs, the inventory will be updated at least annually.

Expectations of Members

CUEE members are invited to cooperate and collaborate to offer increased access to graduate level courses and credentials. Member institutions are encouraged to share (via the Secretariat) course syllabi, program proposals, and other materials that make it possible for Consortium members to learn about existing and proposed evaluation-related education opportunities and position their own initiatives so that they complement existing courses and programs.

Membership in CUEE implies a commitment to the principles that guide this Consortium. A member must be:

committed to increasing access to quality graduate level instruction in evaluation through a mix of in-person course offerings and internet-based (or distance mode) delivery mechanisms
committed to pre-service and in-service professional development for evaluation practitioners informed by contemporary theory and professional practice
committed to shared access to programs and courses among Consortium members
committed to being student-focused
committed to maintaining high academic standards as defined within respective provincial jurisdictions
respectful of the highest professional standards and ethics of professional practice in the field (e.g., Joint Committee Standards for Program Evaluation)
respectful of evaluation as an interdisciplinary domain of inquiry
respectful of diversity of information needs of the evaluation community and contexts for practice
respectful of member university interests and autonomy
respectful of market trends and demands in government, voluntary, private and other sectors with interest in evaluation.

These principles are intended to guide the policies and practices of members of CUEE. The founding members of CUEE agreed to create this Consortium to realize the benefits from information sharing and collaboration and new members are expected to join in that spirit.

Member Benefits for 2009–2010

CUEE is a unique organization – no other country has successfully created and sustained a voluntary association of post-secondary institutions to expand graduate-level evaluation courses and programs.

The CUEE Secretariat (University of Victoria, School of Public Administration) will host a website that will serve as a repository of contributed course syllabi, program proposals and other related materials. CUEE members will be able to access a SharePoint space that will be password protected and available to members only. Provision for chat spaces will be included.

The cross-Canada inventory of evaluation courses and programs will be updated at least annually and will be made available to all CUEE members. That document is intended to provide members with a summary of existing courses and programs to better position their own contributions to graduate level evaluation education.

CUEE members, beginning in 2009–2010 will be invited to initiate discussions to facilitate transfers of courses from one member institution to another. In Western Canada, the Western Dean’s Agreement can serve as an umbrella agreement to facilitate this process between institutions. Agreements between other programs/institutions will need to be negotiated bilaterally. The Secretariat will serve as a support for such initiatives, offering information, examples of worked out bilateral agreements, and like materials.

CUEE members are encouraged to develop their own graduate evaluation credentials so that they can become providers of graduate evaluation education as well as recipients of courses taken by their students elsewhere. Given the importance of online graduate education, institutions are encouraged to offer at least some courses in that mode. Institutions that have created or are currently offering courses and programs online will have opportunities on the member’s SharePoint site to share their experiences of evaluation-related teaching and learning via distance education modalities.

In the Fall of 2010, there will be a national meeting of all CUEE members to discuss and approve policy and discuss course and program issues.

Become a Member

Please contact the CUEE Secretariat for more information: cuee@uvic.ca