Programs/Units Review

For Instructional          Programs:

Outline

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Example

One Year Follow-up (Report Guide)

One Year Follow-up (Example)

For Administrative/
Service Units:

Outline

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Example

One Year Follow-up

II. The Formal In-depth Evaluation Process for Instructional, Administrative and Educational Support Services Units.

As a contribution to the above planning process, each instructional program conducts a formal, in-depth, internal and external review with faculty participation every five years to measure student learning outcomes and determine program effectiveness. Other units conduct a brief internal review every three years to measure unit-specific administrative objectives and determine service outcomes. Instructional units are reviewed every five years because observations of change and the ability to measure curricular change may take place slowly. Programs may see entire new student cohorts every 3-4 years. Service programs, however, can see change more rapidly and need feedback more often than every five years. Within the review process, units identify:

• unit missions (related to College mission)
• unit goals (related to College goals)
• outcome objectives and administrative objectives
• a method of assessment
• needs for change and future issues based on results of assessment

Each year, all units undergoing review make presentations to the unit Vice President. The Vice President reports to the College Cabinet on the unit’s accomplishments, needs for improvement and critical issues uncovered in the process. The College Cabinet then determines ways to support needs for change through the reallocation of funds, organizational change or additional recommendations. The units also have the opportunity to apply for a small "Innovation Grant" to make improvements in their programs or services or meet an unmet need (funds distributed by the Institutional Effectiveness Committee).

Each unit is required to make a one-year follow-up report (closing the loop) to the unit Vice President identifying their progress in the following areas:

• Progress made on identified strategies for change (from program review)
• Effective uses of new budget reallocation
• Continued needs within the unit

The complete schedule for program review, the detailed process for instructional and administrative review (including program examples) are found in the one-year program review calendar:

 

Instructional programs review programs on an academic (fall/spring) calendar.  Administrative and student services units review programs in a calendar year (January – December).