Program Review

Program Review at Lane occurs in three forms:

• On a three-year cycle, the Career Technical Education Coordinating Committee (CTECC) (CTECC) reviews the work of each program and its advisory committee. Program coordinators and division managers submit written reports to the CTECC and present their findings to the committee for feedback and guidance for improvement. Through strengthening the advisory committee relationship, the CTECC supports continuous program improvement. In addition to the committee’s review cycle, the Vice President for Instruction and Student Services reviews each program and interviews the program coordinators and managers at the midpoint between CTECC reviews, providing additional emphasis on program improvement.
  • CTECC Self-Evaluation form (.doc)
  • CTECC Self-Evaluation form (.pdf) - Fill and print only -- saving available only with professional version of Adobe Acrobat.
• Annual Unit Planning involves all faculty and staff in reviewing program data on student retention and course success data, transfer rates, licensure rates, and employment placement rates; and in creating unit initiatives for program improvements. Each unit requests funding of initiatives through budget planning documents that are reviewed by the Office of Academic and Student Affairs and various funding committees of the college.
  
  Lane is considering a four-year cycle of program review, a periodic, comprehensive peer-review of all academic and co-curricular programs. This type of program review answers the question, “How effectively is the program meeting the needs of students, the college, and the community?” The purposes of program review are to improve programs by identifying strengths and challenges, setting priorities, planning for change, and informing decisions about resource allocation. Assessment of student learning outcomes is a central component of such comprehensive program review. Faculty, staff and managers actively participate in gathering and analyzing program review data, and planning and evaluating educational programs. Program review requires multiple sources of data to evaluate the program’s use of human, physical, and financial resources. If adopted, the new program review process will be conducted every four years in units responsible for academic credit programs and courses, non-credit programs that provide career training or basic skills development, co-curricular student services, and the library.

• Specialized accreditation serves as a program review in many of Lane’s career technical programs, providing external review of policies and practices in health professions, flight, aviation maintenance and mechanical technologies. Professional organizations provide valuable critiques of applied degree and certificate programs.