UGAPR Goals
- Review all undergraduate programs on a 7-year cycle
- Provide a guided Continuous Improvement Plan process to the academic units to encourage consistency in interpretation and creating meaningful positive change of data
- Achieve three purposes:
- Meet the needs of our HLC accreditation process (with new criteria)
- Meet the needs of our departments/units/colleges/programs and their external accreditors
- Use the academic program review process as a way to further curriculum enhancement and Continuous Improvement Processes (CIP) by providing data for program planning and resource allocation
- Create an appropriate timeline that matches that of external accreditors and review
Every seven years—academic program faculty, staff, and administrators will review their academic program offering based on the completion of the UGAPR Form that includes the following steps:
- Step One: Committee Structure
- Step Two: Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
- Step Three: Assessment Tools and Policies
- Step Four: Curriculum Map
- Step Five: Access, Opportunity, and Excellence
- Step Six: Continuous Improvement Questions/Plan and Program Narrative
- Programs may select from the following to complete their Program Narrative:
- Tell the story of your program successes. Please choose 1-2 main areas to highlight; programs might focus a narrative on improvement in student achievement, faculty achievement, or successful curricular changes.
- Submit the APR report you last shared with your external accreditor.
- Programs may select from the following to complete their Program Narrative:
Undergraduate Academic Program Review Feedback Process
Suggested Program Review Committee Membership
- Program Chair (or Co-Chairs)
- Tenure-stream faculty (1-3, depending on size of program)
- Faculty* (1-3 from the list below, depending on size of program)
- Academic advising/teaching/curriculum development-focused faculty*
- Research-focused faculty Service/Outreach-focused faculty
- Program staff* (1-3 depending on size of program)
- Advisors
- Executive Assistants
- Lab Technicians
- Minimum of two students (6-13 members total)
*Faculty and staff representatives should be recognized for their service to the program through annual review processes and/or other reasonable compensation, such as release time from other service commitments in Years 1 and 4 or a professional development stipend, as determined by the college.
