The DATAWave is a weekly publication of the Assessment Resource Office of Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). Its purpose is to inform the campus community and broader constituencies about assessment issues and practice at ENMU. The issues of this first volume cover the following assessment topics: (1) introduction to the newsletter and report on the College Outcomes Measurement Program; (2) why students choose ENMU; (3) students' values and attitudes; (4) results of the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP); (5) CAAP results by College and ethnicity ; (6) students' perceptions of their remedial needs; (7) academic expectations of freshman students; (8) exploration of CAAP results in writing-I; (9) exploration of CAAP results in writing-II"; (10) exploration of CAAP results in mathematics"; (11) campus environment as measured through first time students; (12) highlights of North Central Association annual meeting; (13) a discussion of student retention; (14) preliminary results from the Student Satisfaction Inventory; (15) summary of volume I; and (16) an assessment questionnaire for the volume. (Contains 17 tables and 42 figures.) (SLD)