Program Review at UNC-Chapel Hill

Conducted by the Office of the Provost and The Graduate School

“The primary purpose of all program reviews is the improvement of graduate programs…a strategy for improvement that is well-reasoned, far-seeing, and as apolitical as possible…the size and stability of a program, its future faculty resources and student market, its equipment and space needs, its strengths and weaknesses, and its contribution to the mission of the institution…It helps set goals and directions for the future…It is necessary to assure the continuing quality of graduate programs and identify ways to improve them. There is no adequate substitute.”

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs (Washington, DC: Council of Graduate Schools), p. 2-3

Program review is:

Program Review provides answers to the following kinds of questions:

--Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs, pp. 4-5

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