The Bronco Assessment Student Ambassadors (BASA) are a team of students who work collaboratively with each other and the Educational Assessment faculty and staff to support projects that help the University understand and improve the effectiveness of student experience programming. BASA will participate in equitable and culturally sensitive data collection, analysis of data, and sharing of findings from assessment projects. BASA will work with campus partners (e.g., Student Life, Ignatian Center, Office of Multicultural Learning, academic programs) and will also contribute to the assessment of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) efforts on campus.
- Jordan Myhre
Jordan is a junior from Morgan Hill, California. He is majoring in Accounting & Information Systems. After being a Bronco Assessment Student Ambassador for a year, he is proud to have developed and honed various assessment-related skills, such as qualitative data analysis and survey development. This was accomplished primarily through involvement in large-scale projects such as Educational Assessment's Belonging Study. Jordan is excited to be part of the many projects BASA has planned for the 2023-2024 academic year, and to continue giving students a greater voice in decision-making at SCU.
- Shubhaan Saxena
Shubhaan is a junior from Bangalore, India. He is majoring in Management Information Systems. During his time as a Bronco Assessment Student Ambassador, he has been able to build a wide skill set, ranging from quantitative and qualitative data analysis to organizing focus groups. In addition to these technical skills, he has also acquired many soft skills such as effective teamwork and time-management. This was accomplished through many mini-projects done throughout the year, and the Belonging Study conducted during Spring 2023. Shubhaan is eager to work on more such projects this academic year, in the hopes of bettering the overall student experience at SCU!
- Tomisin Opaleye
Tomisin is a sophomore from many places, namely Chicago, London, and Lagos, Nigeria. They are a bioengineering major on the biomolecular track. In their free time, they like reading books, going to the gym, watching movies, going to the beach and playing rugby or basketball. So far on BASA they have worked on their skills in statistical analysis and data presentation mostly through work on the Belonging Study. This year, Tomisin is looking forward to doing more presentations and hopefully leading a focus group.
BASA inaugural team (2022-2023) Left to right— Jordan, Shubhaan, Varsha, Rianna, and Tomisin