Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo CollegeCarlotta Campbell, College of Alameda

Lesley Kawaguchi, Santa Monica College

Use the ACCJC rubric to assess the viability of your program review process.

Develop an action plan to guide and improve the program review process at your college.

Draw a diagram, chart, or picture of your college’s program review process.

Include all major steps and all areas on campus that go through program review.

Pair off with someone from another college.

Describe or explain your drawings to each other.

ACCJC expectation: Colleges should be at the Sustainable Continuous Quality Improvement level on the rubric.

This includes both Instructional and non-instructional programs and services

So, where are you?

Preliminary dialogue about what data or process should be used

Recognition of existing practices and models that make use of institutional research.

Exploration of program review models by various departments or individuals.

Implentation of pilot programs in a few programs/operational units.

PR embedded across the institution using qualitative and quantitative data

Dialogue about the results is evident within program.

Leadership groups accept responsibility for PR framework development (Senate, Admin. etc.).

Appropriate resources are allocated . Development of framework for linking

results to planning for improvement. Development of a framework to align

results to resource allocation.

PR processes in place and implemented regularly.

Results integrated into institutional planning and decision-making.

Framework is established and implemented.

Dialogue about the results evident throughout institution; part of discussion of institutional effectiveness.

Results are consistently linked to planning and resource allocation processes; college can provide specific examples.

Institution evaluates the effectiveness of its PR processes in supporting and improving student achievement and SLOs.

PR processes ongoing, systematic and used to assess and improve student learning.

Institution refines its PR processes to improve institutional effectiveness.

Results of PR used to continually refine and improve program practices, resulting in improvements in student achievement and learning.

Where is your college on rubric?

How do you know? What evidence ?

What needs to be done to reach the Sustainable Continuous Quality Improvement?

Who on campus can help?

What timeline should be set?

What resources will you need to reach SCQI?

How will you know when you have reached it?