SUMMARY OF PROGRAM CONTINUATION DECISIONS ACTION ITEMS
The Presidential Green Ribbon Commission reviewed the strengths and challenges of each programs listed below to determine if the programs should be enhanced, consolidated, suspended, or eliminated. Based on recommendations from the Commission, the following action items may be proposed during the Board of Regents.
The Commission's recommendations of findings are based on the following:
The Council's Guidelines for Review of Academic Program Productivity [November 1999] established the following thresholds to be used to identify programs for review:
Associate programs - average of fewer than 12 degrees awarded during a five-year period.
Baccalaureate programs - average of fewer than 12 degrees awarded during a five-year period.
Master's programs - average of fewer than seven degrees awarded during a five-year period.
Doctoral programs - average of fewer than five degrees awarded during a five-year period.
Can the program be combined with a similar or related program in the present department or in another department?
Future of the program/cost effectiveness
Cultural/societal need for the program
Full-time faculty members/part-time faculty members
Average teaching load
Opportunities for collaboration between other universities
Potential for growth in the next (3-5 years)/evidence supports for growth
Attempts to revitalize
(CPE, Review of Existing Academic Programs, p.3)
Rationale
The data reviewed and discussed was also considering other factors such as expense, data trends, outside funding sources/grants, longevity, and special considerations, etc.
Program quality and student success
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS REVIEWED
Centrality to the institution's mission and consistency with state goals
Elementary Education
Program demand
IECE
Special Education
Plan for improvement and or implementation
Master's in Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Curriculum/curriculum latter (course offered in general education needed)
Master's in Environmental Studies
Mathematics
How many different concentrations or options are available in the program?
Chemistry
Spanish
Enrollments/projected enrollment
English
Completers of the program/degrees conferred
Liberal Studies
Credit hours production
Social Sciences
Licensure passage rates of (i.e. Praxis exams) etc.
Interdisciplinary Behavioral Sciences
Applied Information Technology
Job prospects for graduates
Music
Accreditation of the program if required
Music Education
Student impact
Fine/Studio Arts
Support resources/facilities/equipment
African Studies
Cost and funding/course proliferation and costs
Business Administration
Duplication
Political Science
Critical mass/how can the program be improved? - Can the program be combined with a similar or related program in the present department or in another department?
Public Administration