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Academic Program Review

Purpose

The University of San Diego’s academic program review process provides a systematic and continuous means of assuring academic excellence. It is designed to encourage accountability and dialogue among members within the department under review as a self-reflective process and within the broader institutional and discipline-based contexts. The process is meant to assist programs in understanding their distinctive and collaborative roles within the University community and with relevant external constituents.  It is provides the basis for making evidence-based plans and decisions to foster improvements at all levels of the institution.

Overview of the four-stage process:

  • Department self study
  • Program review team report
  • Recommendations of the Academic Review Committee
  • Responses to recommendations and program plans via a discussion with the provost, dean, and program administrator.

Faculty can access complete guidelines and ancillary materials through their department chairs, or by contacting their Assessment Team representative:

Carole Huston, Director

Robert Barry Fleming, Arts Division

Colin Fisher, Humanities Division

Sue Lowery, Mathematics and Sciences Division

Annette Taylor, Social Sciences Division