Audit and Review Overview & Timeline

1. Purpose of Audit and Review
• Improve the quality of programs
• Identify needs for further study and/or planning
• Help set priorities
• Ensure appropriate standards for program quality
• Identify needs and unique circumstances of specific programs
• Identify non-functional and unnecessarily duplicative programs
• Identify needs for structural changes in programs or administrative units
  
  
2. Procedures
• Call for self-studies
• Self-studies completed
• Committee review of self-studies and tentative report
• Face-to-face meeting (program, dean, provost, committee)
• Report (recommendations to program, college, university)

NOTE: Report will identify strengths, weaknesses, questions, recommendations/requirement, and a final recommendation

3. Scheduling
• Call for self-studies, April
• Self-studies due to Dean, October 1
• Self-studies due to Associate Vice Chancellor, October 15
• Committee review, October - March
• Face-to-face meetings, February - May
  
  
4. Format
• See self study sample on web
• Ensure assessment plan
• Include page numbers
  
  
5. Resources
• Audit and Review web page
• Fact Book (Trend Data)
• Survey results