Date | Description | Documents |
| December 12, 2011 | Provost’s Presentation to Faculty Senate: “What Higher Education Leaders Are Saying About Program Prioritization”; Senate Motion to refer Program Prioritization Metric Discussion to Senate Campus Planning Committee | Presentation (PPTX, 118 KB) Motion (PDF, 31 KB) |
| February 20, 2012 | Provost's Charge to Senate Campus Planning Committee: Develop framework for the program review process | Campus Planning Committee Charge Memo (PDF, 16 KB) Campus Planning Committee Membership (PDF, 32 KB) |
| March 5, 2012 | Communication from the Graduate Dean to all Program Directors, Chairs and Staff who support Graduate Education. The purpose of the communication was to solicit input into the process begin discussed by the Graduate Council for Program Prioritization. | Email Message from Graduate Dean (PDF, 125 KB) |
| March 19, 2012 | Graduate Council discussion of draft document listing quality indicators that could be used in a program prioritization process; Member of Campus Planning Committee meets with Graduate Council regarding process for Program Prioritization | Minutes (PDF, 437 KB) |
| March 21, 2012 | Second communication from Graduate Dean to all Program Directors, Chairs and Staff who support Graduate Education asking for additional feedback on prioritization | Email Message from Graduate Dean (PDF, 122 KB) |
| March 22, 2012 | Presentation to Board of Trustees on New Normal | Presentation (PPTX, 141 KB) |
| April 12, 2012 | Senate Campus Planning Committee Report Submitted to Provost | Campus Planning Committee Report (PDF, 4 MB) |
| April 24, 2012 | Communication from Graduate Dean to Graduate Council with final document describing the merger of graduate program review and program prioritization criteria | Email Message from Graduate Dean (PDF, 97 KB) |
| May 4, 2012 | Annual Graduate Faculty Meeting. The new process for graduate program review and criteria for graduate program prioritization shared. | Minutes (PDF, 246 KB) |
| September 20, 2012 | Presentation to the Board of Trustees on Program Prioritization | Presentation (PPTX, 671 KB) |
| October 9, 2012 | General Administration Announcement of Low Productivity Review | Ortega Memo – Academic Degree Program Review (PDF, 326 KB) Program Review & Recommendation Form (PDF, 68 KB) ASU Low Productivity Review Programs (XLSX, 16 KB) ASU Productivity – All Programs (XLSX, 32 KB) |
| October 15, 2012 | Campus Announcement of Program Prioritization | Provost Email (PDF, 308 KB) Provost Email (PDF, 272 KB) Program Prioritization Metrics for Undergraduate Programs (PDF, 160 KB) Criteria for Prioritizing Graduate Programs (PDF, 245 KB) |
| October 15, 2012 | Communication from Graduate Dean to all program directors and department chairs for graduate program identified on UNC General Administration's low productivity list. [Note: Two other programs were added to the list because of perennial low enrollment, but not currently in the UNC GA review.] | Email Message from Graduate Dean (PDF, 139 KB) |
| October 18, 2012 | Communication from Graduate Dean to the College Deans describing Tier One Process | Email Message from Graduate Dean (PDF, 96 KB) |
| October 19, 2012 | Information Sent to Chairs regarding all programs by Tier | Email of Productivity Database from GA: All Programs (PDF, 245 KB) Spreadsheet of Productivity Database from GA: All Programs (PDF, 593 KB) Guidelines for Undergraduate Program Productivity Review 2012 (PDF, 574 KB) Graduate Program Prioritization Review Tiers (PDF, 87 KB) |
| October 19, 2012 | First meeting of Assessment & Review Committee of the Graduate Council to discuss the Tier One programs, receive and overview (including the UNC-GA Process) and background on each program and to develop a strategy for completing the review process. | |
| October 19, 2012 | Assessment and Review Committee members of the Graduate Council began their individual reviews of low productivity programs | |
| October 24, 2012 | Information sent to Chairs regarding revised timeline | Email of revised timeline (PDF, 191 KB) |
| October 26, 2012 | IRAP Program Review AsULearn site announced to Deans and Chairs | AsULearn Program Prioritization Site is Ready (PDF, 12 KB) |
| November 7, 2012 | Initial Meeting of the Undergraduate Program Prioritization Working Group | Working Group Members (PDF, 33 KB) Meeting Schedule of Working Group (PDF, 50 KB) |
| November 27, 2012 | Assessment and Review Committee of the Graduate Council met to review all reports submitted by graduate programs in Tier One. | |
| December 10, 2012 | Low Enrollment Undergraduate Report Submitted to Provost; Program Reviews for Undergraduate Programs | Low Enrollment Undergraduate Report (PDF, 13 KB) |
| December 17, 2012 | Information sent to Graduate Programs regarding Tier Two | Tier 2 Guidelines for Graduate Program Productivity Review 2012-13 (PDF, 109 KB) Criteria for Prioritizing Graduate Programs (PDF, 58 KB) |
| December 18, 2012 | Appalachian's Response to the GA Low Productivity Program Review; Program Reviews for Undergraduate & Graduate Programs | Appalachian's Low Productivity Response Memo (PDF, 338 KB) Email to General Administration (PDF, 171 KB) Summary Table with Provost's Recommendations for all programs under review (PDF, 629 KB) |
| January 9, 2013 | Provost Update for Continuing Program Prioritization | Provost Email – Program Prioritization Update (PDF, 299 KB) |
| January 15, 2013 | Provost Update to Chairs for Continuing Program Prioritization | Email with Revised Tier 2 Guidelines (PDF, 640 KB) |
| February 4, 2013 | Program Prioritization Revised Timeline | Email with Revised Timeline (PDF, 389 KB) Guidelines for Undergraduate Program Productivity Review revised (PDF, 561 KB) |
| February 20, 2013 | Communication from Graduate Dean to graduate program directors and department chairpersons for graduate programs identified as Tier Three programs | Email from the Graduate Dean (PDF, 148 KB) |
| May 23, 2013 | Meeting of Assessment and Review Committee of Graduate Council to discuss Tier Two programs | |
| June 25, 2013 | Meeting of Assessment and Review Committee of Graduate Council to continue discussions of Tier Two programs | |
| July 2, 2013 | Meeting of Assessment and Review Committee of Graduate Council to continue discussions of Tier Two programs | |
| August 13, 2013 | Deans Retreat | Deans Retreat Agenda (PDF, 12 KB) UNC Programs & Enrollment by degree level – Fall 2012 (Active Portfolio Mgt Report) (XLSX, 24 KB) Sections & SCH FTE Fall 2012 (XLSX, 16 KB) Courses SCH Enrollment by College Department (PDF, 354 KB) Graduate School Applications (PDF, 72 KB) Enrollment & Degrees Awarded, Graduate & Undergraduate – 2012-2013 (PDF, 1 MB) |
| August 13, 2013 | Deans Ranking Process begins; Prioritization Process for Academic Support Units begins | Questions for Academic Support Unit Review (PDF, 307 KB) |
| September 10, 2013 | Meeting of Assessment and Review Committee of Graduate Council to focus on early submitted Tier Three reports. The committee decided that a review of Tier Three would provide valuable contexts for reviewing Tier Two programs | |
| September 18, 2013 | Meeting of Assessment and Review Committee of Graduate Council to discuss of Tier Three programs | |
| September 27, 2013 | Final meeting of Assessment and Review Committee of Graduate Council to finalize discussion and to draft recommendations (NOTE: discussions continue for several days via email.) | |
| September 27, 2013 | Presentation to the Board of Trustees on Program Prioritization | Presentation (PPTX, 115 KB) Enrollment & Degrees Awarded, Graduate & Undergraduate – 2012-2013 (PDF, 1 MB) |
| October 1, 2013 | Notebooks containing information regarding Graduate Program Prioritization delivered to Provost, Deans, and key individuals in Academic Affairs and IRAP; Graduate Program Review Reports | Assessment and Review Committee report (PDF, 4 MB) |
| October 16, 2013 | Deans Ranking Process (including faculty members involved) | Walker College of Business Process (PDF, 5 KB) Reich College of Education Process (PDF, 71 KB) College of Fine and Applied Arts Process (PDF, 76 KB) College of Health Sciences Process (PDF, 83 KB) Hayes School of Music Process (PDF, 146 KB) College of Arts and Sciences Process (PDF, 82 KB) |
| October 21, 2013 | Deans Retreat | Agenda (PDF, 63 KB) Low Productivity Graduate Programs 2002-2012 (PDF, 69 KB) Low Productivity Undergraduate Programs 2002-2012 (PDF, 12 KB) |
| October 21, 2013 | Graduate Council discussion of reports from Tiers 1, 2, and 3 of the Assessment and Review Committee | Graduate School Prioritization Report (PDF, 3 MB) Graduate Council Meeting Agenda (PDF, 245 KB) |
| November 11, 2013 | Composite Rankings by Deans | Deans Consolidated Rankings highest BAC v2 (PDF, 87 KB) Deans Consolidated Rankings lowest BAC v2 (PDF, 87 KB) Deans Consolidated Rankings highest MAS v2 (PDF, 83 KB) Deans Consolidated Rankings lowest MAS v2 (PDF, 86 KB) Deans Consolidated Pgm Groupings BAC v3 (PDF, 85 KB) Deans Consolidated Pgm Groupings MAS v3 (PDF, 78 KB) |
| November 22, 2013 | Draft Report Shared with Deans Council; Review Reports due from Academic Support Units | |
| November 25, 2013 | Report Presented to the Chancellor | |
| December 12, 2013 | Final Report Shared with Deans and Deans shared Recommendations with the Chairpersons of Affected Programs | |
| December 17, 2013 | Final Report Approved by Chancellor and Notification Email Sent to Campus. (The Final Report is too large to attach here. See Final Report on this website.) | |
| December 18, 2013 | Article on Program Prioritization appeared in Watauga Democrat | |
| February 19, 2014 | Report submitted to AP&P for comment | |
| March 3, 2014 | Chancellor/ Provost Response to Campus regarding AP&P recommendations | A Message from the Chancellor (PDF, 87 KB) |
| March 4, 2014 - June 1, 2014 | Begin Review of concentrations, minors and certificates. | |
| March 28, 2014 | Final Report Of Program Consolidation and Discontinuation presented to the Board of Trustees | |
| April 1, 2014 | Final report submitted to General Administration | Final Report Part 1 (PDF, 2 MB) Final Report Part 2 (PDF, 4 MB) Final Report Part 3 (PDF, 3 MB) |