Program Review Committee Agendas
PRC Meeting, April 21, 2008
- Prayer
- Minutes from 4/7 meeting
- Update on Faculty Meeting
- Catalog revisions update (Bill)
- Student Life update
- Update on departmental work
- Program Review Schedule: the place of GE & Student Life
- Program Review Template: Adding specificity to Section 5
- Summer work:
- Handbook for assessment
- Handbook for Chairs
- Workshops
PRC Meeting, April 7, 2008
- Prayer
- Minutes from 3/31 meeting
- Faculty Handbook revision: status in Faculty Council
- Department Chair Responsibilities
- PRC responsibilities
- Include Program Review and Assessment in Evaluation Promotion and Tenure
- Annual Updates: Revising the template according to our Program Review Template
- Catalog revisions - timeline and proposal from Bill Wright
- Program Review Template: Adding specificity to Section 5
- Program Review Schedule
- Proposal from Kinesiology
PRC Meeting, March 31, 2008
- Prayer
- Minutes from 3/10 meeting
- Discussion of compensation proposals
- Biology
- Communication Studies
- Discussion of the new website design
- Laura on her educational effectiveness review
PRC Meeting, March 10, 2008
- Prayer
- Minutes from 2/25 meeting
- Chart 1 on template (see attachment)
- Handbook changes
- Chair responsibilities –Ray’s proposal (see attachment)
- Faculty promotion and tenure –where should this be included? (see attachment)
- Discussion of compensation proposals
- Art
- Mathematics and CS
- Education
- Chemistry
- Theater
PRC Meeting, February 25, 2008
- Prayer
- Minutes from 2/11 meeting
- Discussion of compensation proposals
- Psychology
- Mathematics and CS
- Final draft schedule for Six Year reviews and accountability proposal (see bold sections). Please note that English has been moved, and that Mathematics and CS have been separated.
- Chart 1 on template (see attachment)
- Handbook changes
- PRC: composition and responsibilities –Glenn requested a meeting between the Faculty Council and the chair to address some questions
- Chair responsibilities –Ray’s proposal (see attachment)
- Faculty promotion and tenure –where should this be included? (see attachment)
PRC Meeting, February 11, 2008
- Prayer
- Minutes from 1/28 meeting
- Updates on members of the committee’s work with individual departments
- Final schedule for Six Year reviews and accountability proposal.
- Chart 1 on template
- A word on handbook changes
PRC Meeting, January 28, 2008
- Prayer
- General concern: only 6 meetings until the end of the semester –how we might need to work to make sure we accomplish what we need to accomplish
- Minutes from 1/7 meeting
- Distribution of folders to members of the committee working with individual departments and general directions about this work
- Handbook Revisions –new (and hopefully final) draft
Does this draft address the concerns raised at our previosu two meetings?
- Final schedule for Six Year reviews and accountability proposal. General questions:
- When should we present this to the senate –there is some emergency here given the possible compensation for departments scheduled to turn in their report next year
- Does this system seem to address the concerns raised by our conversations so far (lask of time for program review, concern that the compensation might not lead to better work, etc.)
PRC Meeting, January 7, 2008
- Prayer
- Orientation
- Minutes
- Handbook Revisions
PRC Agenda, December 4, 2007
- Prayer
- Approval of Minutes
- Briefing on charts and data -work in progress
- Work on the handbook:
PRC Meeting, November 6, 2007
Prayer
Review of 15 point program –down to 13 since two have become irrelevant
PRC Meeting, October 16, 2007
Prayer
Request from Faculty Council for an update on the 6 Learning Standards:
Who is responsible for Program Review and Assessment? A Proposal
Budget implications for 18 academic departments:
PRC Meeting, October 1, 2007
1. Prayer
2. Program Review Template (see handout) and plan for action
- Our goals:
- Review the last part of the template
- Address the concerns raised by the executive Senate
- Our documents:
- Program review template numbered and bulleted (Ray’s email)
- How to make Program Review manageable: where to get the information
- How to make Program Review manageable: an example
- A historical Reconstruction: Warrren’s Form BB
- Addictional document (statement to include, perhaps, at the beginning of the whole document?) –see below
3. The Nature of Program Review: a Process
A key characteristic of program review is that it is a regular process and not an
ntermittent event. Ideally, annual department reports should be “mini” program
assessments, which feed and inform future program reviews. Change and
improvement in our academic programs require a concerted effort by all parties to
engage in an on-going process of assessment. Indeed, programs should not view
program review as a one-time exercise. Instead, the program review process entails a
series of recurring steps:
4.Who is responsible for Program Review and Assessment?
5. An update on the 15 points
PRC Meeting, September 11, 2007
1. Prayer
2. Program Review Template (see handout) and plan for action
3. What is the schedule?
4. Who is responsible for Program Review and Assessment?
PRC Meeting, September 5, 2007
Prayer
Committee goals and membership –questions?
Goals for this year –review of our last meeting 15 point program
What’s happened this summer and the resulting priorities for this committee
- The WASC commission letter:
- Summary and comments
- Sharing the letter with the faculty: when? Where? How to best use faculty forum?
Director of Assessment –Job decription