This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Effective Leadership Assessment: A 360-Degree Process; (2) Editor's Notes: Accentuating the Positive in Our Work; (3) The Broadcast Education Association's Model Rubrics Project: Building Consensus One Rubric at a Time; (4) Building a Better Course-Evaluation Process; (5) Assessing Deep Learning: Using a Portfolio to Evaluate Gains in Critical Inquiry among First-Year Students; (6) The Role of an Institution-Level Assessment Committee in Faculty Professional Development Initiatives; and (7) First-Year Composition and Fall-to-Fall Retention.