FACULTY SENATE
Report of the Program Quality
Review Oversight Group
October 25, 2000
The Faculty Senate established the Program Quality Review
Oversight Group as part of the program quality review legislation
adopted by the Faculty Senate on April 23, 1998. This group, which
comprises the Chair of the Graduate Council, the Chair of the
Curricular Affairs Committee, and the Vice Chair of the Faculty
Senate, is charged with oversight of the University's program quality
review process. The 2000-01 oversight group, Marian Goldsmith, Chet
Hickox and Janett Trubatch, met on October 20 with Vice Provost Blair
Lord and Faculty Senate Coordinator Sheila Black Grubman, who have
the responsibility for the implementation of the program quality
review process.
After discussing the progress of the 1998-99 and the 1999-00
program quality reviews, the group agreed that the description of the
program quality review report should be clarified before initiating
the 2000-01 reviews.
The PQR Oversight Group recommends that the Faculty Senate
approve the following:
* Change section 8.86.30 as follows (additions are in
green):
8.86.30 Report. In general terms, the report prepared
as a result of a program quality review should have four basic parts: a descriptive section; an
evaluative section; a recommendations section; and a summary section. These are described in
8.86.31-34 below. The program faculty, in consultation with the
steering committee, shall prepare the sections described in
8.86.31-33. The section described in 8.86.34 shall be prepared by the
steering committee.
* Sections 8.86.31-33 remain the same:
8.86.31 Description. The descriptive section
may be comprised largely of departmental material produced on an
annual basis such as past annual reports, supplemented by curricular
proposals submitted since the last review, updated vitae of all
tenure-track faculty members and other personnel, other than graduate
assistants teaching on a part-time and/or non-continuing basis, the
latest accreditation report, if applicable, and such other
documentation as the department considers pertinent. The Program
Review Steering Committee shall determine what specific information
may be used or must be included in the descriptive section. (See
8.86.21).
8.86.32 Evaluation. The members of the program, in
cooperation with their Program Review Steering Committee, shall use
the information contained in the descriptive section to assess the
strengths and weaknesses of the program including a quantitative and
qualitative assessment of the teaching, research, service, and/or
other creative accomplishments of the faculty.
8.86.33 Recommendations. On the basis of the assessments
made in the evaluative section, the members of the program, in
cooperation with their Program Review Steering Committee and the Dean
or academic administrator to whom the program director or chair
reports shall develop a plan to help direct the future efforts of the
program. The plan should include: goals, steps to be taken to achieve
those goals, and a timetable.
* Add the following new section 8.36.34:
8.86.34
Summary. The Steering Committee
shall prepare a short summary of the most important points in the
report and any observations or thoughts on the evaluation and
recommendations contained in the report. These observations shall
serve as a peer assessment of the process and its outcome and shall
be conveyed with the report as described in 8.86.40-41.