1. What is it? What is required? What is the Chair’s Role?
Program Review
What is it?
What is required?
What is the Chair’s Role?

2. What is Program Review? Program Review is designed to:
Promote self-assessment and improvement (c.f. a Business Plan)
Provide context for future planning
Program Review is not designed to:
Evaluate academic departments
Force academic departments to “defend” their practices

3. What is a “Self Study”? An “Executive Summary” of:
Missions, Goals, & Environment
Educational Programs
General Education
Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment
Faculty
Student Services
Resources & Facilities
Planning

4. When Should I Start Stressing?
Programs without Accreditation (beyond WASC):
Program Review every seven years
Programs with Accreditation:
Program Review every ten years
Eligible for “Expedited Program Review”
Check with the Director of Program Review and Assessment
Hi Sharlene!

5. What is the Process? The Self-Study Year The Program Review Year
Program Review Committee Evaluation
External Reviewer Evaluation
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with University about actions to take
Subsequent Years
Annual Reports on progress toward fulfilling MOU

6. What is the Chair’s Role?
Coordinate the Self Study (and probably write most of it…)
Delegate!
Assessment Tables and Reports
Institutional Research Data
Communicate with University, College, Department, and PARC
Host External Reviewers
Negotiate Helpful and Actionable MOU with University

7. A Few Tips Your department is not on trial, so don’t be defensive
Take advantage of opportunities to learn from External Reviewers
Do the Assessment section and Data Tables first, then create narratives around them
Don’t freak out when IR Data don’t match your department’s data
Program Review Reports always conclude with Recommendations
Think about how your Self Study will inform those recommendations
“Improve assessment methods” is always a recommendation, so stay calm

8. Essential Resources Program Review and Assessment
Home Page:
PARC Documents Page:
Institutional Research
Ask Sharlene about the status of the “Department Reports” link

9. Questions?