This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Closing the Loop: How an Assessment Project Paved the Way for GE Reform (Joan Hawthorne and Anne Kelsch); (2) Value-Added? Committing to Quality: Guidelines for Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education (David C. Paris); (3) Creating a Cadre of Assessment Gurus (at Your Institution) (Philip I. Kramer, Rita Knuesel, and Kenneth M. Jones); (4) Assessment as a Communication and Management Tool for Presidents and Trustees (Mary Dana Hinton and Michael A. MacDowell); (5) Assessing Institutional Assessment: One Institution's Progress in Developing Quality Assessment Practices (Bridgette Everhart Hardin); and (6) From the States: Learning and Accreditation: The Elites Push Back (Peter T. Ewell). (Individual articles contain references and tables.)