Phase I: Self Study
Phase II: External Peer Review
Timeline Goals
Fall
- Draft inquiry questions within the discipline
- Gather data
Winter
- Evaluate, synthesize, and produce draft of the APR report
Spring
- Submit final APR report
- Host external peer review
- PRC Leads APR At-a-Glance
- Academic Program Review Handbook
- Detailed List of Activities for Faculty, including important guiding comments
- APR Guiding Principles
For college-wide information, please see Planning and Institutional Effectiveness web pages, especially the Program Review, Department Planning, and Data links.
For Student Learning Assessment at Lane, please see Student Learning Assessment
Lane's unique inquiry model of Academic Program Review is organized around the 6 Questions: 3 from program faculty, 1-2 from the Administrative Management Team, and 1 from APROC. But you will find that all program reviews share similar features and so we provide these discipline models. We recommend you look at several and use Lane's Handbook to suit your program's needs.
- Art -- PCC
- Business -- Hawaii CC, Business -- Rogue CC
- Chinuk Wawa (as World Languages) -- PCC
- Composition -- Bergen CC, Composition -- Evergreen Valley, Composition -- Grand Rapids, Composition -- PCC
- Communication Studies -- Rio Hondo, Communication Studies -- Ventura
- Criminal Justice -- Hillsborough, Criminal Justice-- N. Oklahoma CC
- Ethnic Studies-- Chabot
- Fabrication -- Calhoun
- Geography -- Bergen, Geography -- PCC
- Graphic Design -- PCC
- Human Services- Salano, Human Services- St. Petersberg
- Math (for Engineering) -- Bergen
Below are posters illustrating how some Lead Faculty and their teams have approached the year 1 self-study. Click on the links below to view the posters.
- Ellen Osterkamp, Art History Program Poster
- Brooke Taylor, Chemistry Program Poster
- Kevin O'Fearghail, Criminal Justice Poster
- Bonnie Simoa, Dance Program Poster
- Margaret Robertson, Drafting Program Poster
- Mike Samano, Ethnic Studies
- Tom Madison, Graphic Design
- Eileen Thompson, Literature and Film Program Poster
- Angela Martinek, Mathematics (Engineering)
In the video below, Christina Howard, Faculty Coordinator of the Physical Therapy Assistant Program, discusses her experience of the process.
APR Resources and Examples You will find: APR process and context as well as institutional resources, templates, instructions, compensation & forms, curriculum development and examples from other educational institutions.