Phases — Program Review

  • There are five main phas­es of a pro­gram review and two fol­low-up phas­es.
  • The first five phas­es ide­al­ly should take one year to com­plete with the one-year fol­low-up report a year lat­er. How­ev­er, some depart­ments may wish to take two years to com­plete. Tak­ing beyond two years is not per­mit­ted to keep things on sched­ule and align with avail­able resources. See: NIC Pro­gram Review Phas­es — One and Two-Year Plans
Phase 1
Planning
 This phase is when the depart­ment / pro­gram area come togeth­er to plan for the process of pro­gram review and set inten­tions for engag­ing in cur­ricu­lum renew­al and pro­gram review activ­i­ties.
Phase 2
Data Gathering and Analysis
 The pro­gram review team explore exist­ing data and iden­ti­fy what oth­er infor­ma­tion is need­ed. With the sup­port of the CTLI and Insti­tu­tion­al research the pro­gram review team write and deploy/host sur­veys and focus groups, and con­sol­i­date, sum­ma­rize and ana­lyze the data.
Phase 3
Self-Study
 The Self-Study is a nar­ra­tive reflec­tion of the pro­gram or depart­ment con­sid­er­ing feed­back from the data gath­er­ing and analy­sis phas­es, while con­sid­er­ing future direc­tions, rec­om­men­da­tions, and actions. This phase includes the pro­gram review team review­ing the evi­dence and reflect­ing on the learn­ing, dis­cussing the Self-Study tem­plate and with the sup­port of the CTLI, writ­ing the Self-Study and sub­mit­ting the final ver­sion to the dean.
Phase 4
External Review
 This involves the exter­nal review team (three peo­ple – two exter­nal to the Col­lege and one inter­nal), read­ing the Self-Study, then com­ing to the Col­lege for a cou­ple of days to meet stu­dents, fac­ul­ty and sup­port mem­bers from across the Col­lege. The exter­nal review team write a sum­ma­ry report with rec­om­men­da­tions and sug­ges­tions for next steps.
Phase 5
Final Report and Action Plan
 In this phase the pro­gram review team con­sol­i­dates and reflects on what has been learned through­out the process, focus­ing on the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Self-Study and those of the exter­nal review team in their report. The Action Plan cap­tures the spe­cif­ic actions the pro­gram review team would like to under­take, with spe­cif­ic deliv­er­ables and time­lines for doing so.
Phase 6
One-Year Follow-Up
 In this phase the pro­gram review team com­pletes a sum­ma­ry report of the action item sta­tus, any changes and edits and over­all presents their work one-year out.
Phase 7
Ongoing Curriculum Renewal
 This is the phase where the pro­gram area con­tin­ues to work on the action plan items and also engages in ongo­ing data col­lec­tion, cur­ricu­lum devel­op­ment and renew­al activ­i­ties.