Measure Room for Improvement Emerging Developed Alignment with Program has no mission, or, mission Program mission is somewhat Program mission is well-aligned with the university mission and is not at all aligned with the aligned with the university university mission and strategic plan; many strategic plan university mission and strategic plan mission and strategic plan of the goals and the objectives of the strategic plan are manifest in the program Program quality, Program lacks examples of Program has some examples of Program has many examples of recognition distinctiveness, and recognition for quality; is not recognition for quality, and has for quality and is clearly unique and distinct recognition uniquely distinct distinct elements Learning outcomes and Program has not articulated clear Program has learning outcomes Program has learning outcomes, a plan for assessment program learning outcomes but has not yet defined assessment, has gathered data, and has assessment or has not acquired used the data to improve the program assessment data Program relevance Program has not been updated in Program has had some curricular Program has many innovative curricular (curricular updates, past 5 years; does not have data or updates; has some data on updates, data showing excellent graduate graduate placement, failed to place graduates; and is not graduate placement; and has placement, and is well aligned with employment prospects) aligned with employment projections some alignment with employment projections employment projections Faculty excellence Program has no evidence or Program has some evidence, Program has many examples of faculty (teaching and research) examples of faculty excellence examples of faculty excellence excellence Capacity for growth and Program is unable to justify need for Program has some reasons Program has ample reasons why program enhancement growth or enhancement justifying need or opportunity to should have resources to grow or enhance grow program Program enrollment Enrollment and graduation are Enrollment and graduation are Enrollment and graduation are trending and graduation trending downward stable upward (Note: all programs saw increase in graduation in 11-12)
Measure Room for Improvement Emerging Developed Alignment with university mission and strategic plan Program has no mission, or, mission is not at all aligned with the university mission and strategic plan Program mission is somewhat aligned with the university mission and strategic plan Program mission is well-aligned with the university mission and strategic plan; many of the goals and the objectives of the strategic plan are manifest in the program Program quality, distinctiveness, and recognition Program lacks examples of recognition for quality; is not uniquely distinct Program has some examples of recognition for quality, and has distinct elements Program has many examples of recognition for quality and is clearly unique and distinct Learning outcomes and assessment Program has not articulated clear program learning outcomes Program has learning outcomes but has not yet defined assessment or has not acquired assessment data Program has learning outcomes, a plan for assessment, has gathered data, and has used the data to improve the program Program relevance (curricular updates, graduate placement, employment prospects) Program has not been updated in past 5 years; does not have data or failed to place graduates; and is not aligned with employment projections Program has had some curricular updates; has some data on graduate placement; and has some alignment with employment projections Program has many innovative curricular updates, data showing excellent graduate placement, and is well aligned with employment projections Faculty excellence (teaching and research) Program has no evidence or examples of faculty excellence Program has some evidence, examples of faculty excellence Program has many examples of faculty excellence Capacity for growth and enhancement Program is unable to justify need for growth or enhancement Program has some reasons justifying need or opportunity to grow program Program has ample reasons why program should have resources to grow or enhance Program enrollment and graduation (Note: all programs saw increase in graduation in 11-12) Enrollment and graduation are trending downward Enrollment and graduation are stable Enrollment and graduation are trending upward
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