CHAPTER 20PROGRAM REVIEWSDrilling Down into Programs and Services
Program reviews are comprehensive reviews of individual programs. They often include the same three elements as accreditation processes: a self-study conducted by the program’s faculty and staff, a visit by one or more external reviewers, and recommendations for improvement based on the conclusions of the self-study and the reviewer.
Program reviews are critical to ensuring, advancing, and demonstrating quality because college-wide quality efforts can go only so far. Regional accreditation teams, for example, cannot possibly have the expertise to look into the quality and effectiveness of every program and service a college offers. Several regional accreditors therefore now ...
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