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