Academic program review

The unit under review will pay travel expenses, lodging and an honorarium for each out-of-town visitor. The unit under review will pay the local community member/recent graduate an honorarium as well as cover business-related meals. A common honorarium amount is between $1,500–$2,000.
 

Read more about the site visit schedule arrangement and coordination in the “Phase 3: Site visit and site visit report” section of the ASU APR Manual.

The unit under review is responsible for making hotel reservations, ground transportation to and from the hotel and airport, as well as making sure that the visitors are escorted to and from the scheduled meetings and activities while visiting campus. The visitor should make his/her own airline reservation and transportation to and from home to the airport. Visitors should submit original travel receipts to the unit for reimbursement.

The unit covers all business expenses for the visit, including a per diem for any meals not provided during meetings. It is up to the unit to decide which meals are provided; however, scheduling the meals as meetings might make it easier to fit in all the required discussions — meetings with different faculty, administrators, students, alumni and community members, as well as touring facilities (see the sample of Site Visit Schedule, Appendix 6.) Keep in mind that the visitors need time amongst themselves for discussion and preparation for the site visit report, which could be scheduled during mealtimes without ASU attendees.

Yes, the UPRA office sets the times for the entry and exit meetings. The entry meeting is generally scheduled for 8:30–9:15 a.m. on the first day and the exit meeting at 2:30–3:30 p.m. in the afternoon on the second day. On occasion, the UPRA Office may be able to accommodate a slight time change.

The entry meeting attendees: university ALO, UPRA director, the unit's dean and the head of the unit.

The exit meeting attendees: university ALO (unless requested otherwise by the dean), UPRA director and the unit's dean. The dean will determine if any additional attendees are to be included in the exit meeting. Visitors usually offer preliminary findings at the exit meeting.

The locations of the entry and exit meetings are chosen by the unit under review. The locations should be added to the site visit schedule and forwarded to the UPRA Office. 
These meetings can also be scheduled in the Fulton Center if the unit has difficulty finding available rooms within their location. If you would like these meetings to be held in the Fulton Center, [email protected] can assist with scheduling.

Recent graduate/community nominees should have:

• Strong familiarity with the program
• Should not have financial association with ASU
• Should reside in the Phoenix metropolitan area

As an ASU instructor, they have a financial association with the university and therefore would not be eligible to be a site visitor.

Separate from the APR, the unit is already required to file annual assessment reports with UOEEE for all its programs. During the same year that a unit is selected for APR, UOEEE will work with the unit to revise its current assessment plans. As part of the APR, the self-study requires copies of these assessment reports and copies of the updated assessment plans filed as appendices. A section of the self-study requires some narrative analysis of what the unit has learned from these reports and any changes made to the curriculum based on these reports. For more information, please see “Program Learning Outcomes assessment” in the ASU APR Manual.
 

Units can also check with UOEEE for results from the student surveys to assist with placement outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students.

Other curriculum offerings would be offerings that were not standard classes, etc. For instance, if the unit uses internships to give your students experience that is not graded but teaches them other necessary skills.

There is no page limit to the length of your self-study. For larger units, the body of the self-study is usually submitted as one document with however many appendices needed.

Six weeks ahead of the confirmed site visit date.

Please provide CV's for all faculty members that contribute significantly to the unit/programs. This means all tenure track and research faculty. No need to include visiting lecturers CV's, etc.

Faculty CV’s are not limited in length.

Any questions about financial data directed to the University Office of Institutional Analysis.

No. The unit response and dean's summary should be independent from each other and not a collaborative report.