Strategic Program Assessment

College GAADs confirm which of their programs will go through SPA in the next academic year. A schedule has been established, but some variation might arise due to extenuating circumstances.

The Graduate School will send initial communications to the Chair, Graduate Program Director (GPD) and GAAD for each program going through SPA; if possible, these will go out in spring semester.
The GAADs will fill out a form confirming some basic information and expectations for each program going through SPA. This information will be shared with the GPD and the Graduate School.
The Graduate School will create a Teams site to house all the relevant SPA information. You will be added to this Teams site.
The Graduate School, in collaboration with Institutional Research, will generate data packets that will be given to each program. This data will include admissions, enrollment, graduation, and time to completion data. When available, we will also include student survey and placement data.

In August, the Graduate School will host a virtual kickoff meeting that will be recorded providing basic instructions and advice to all programs going through SPA. The recording will be made available on the Teams site.
In September, programs will develop a plan for completing their self-study and submit this plan in early October, and they will review their data. These will be facilitated by early September workshops.
In October, the Graduate School will meet with programs to review their data and identify any patterns that merit further investigation.
Programs should identify any additional data they need to complete their self-study.
In December, programs will submit an initial progress report.

In January and February, programs will complete data collection.
Throughout spring semester, programs will complete the bulk of the report writing including sharing with stakeholders to gather feedback.
Programs will submit their second progress report in April by which time the report should be close to complete.

Programs will complete their self-study reports
Programs will submit their draft self-study reports to their GAADs by the end of October.
GAADs will provide feedback to the programs which will be incorporated into the final self-study during November.
Programs will submit their final self-study reports incorporating GAAD feedback by the end of November.
These reports will be reviewed and approved by Chairs (or equivalent) and GAADs before being routed to the Graduate School.

The Graduate School will review of all the submitted self-study reports using the published rubric.
The Graduate School will meet with GAADs to discuss each program that went through SPA from the given college in that cycle.
Meetings will then be scheduled to discuss college and Graduate School feedback.

Strategic Program Assessment

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