How are regular program assessment, program review self-study, and the HLC reaccreditation process related?
Regular program-level assessment is typically focused on student learning and effective teaching occurs on an annual basis until programs have demonstrated that they have sufficient assessment systems in place to move to a biennial reporting cycle. For those on a biennial reporting cycling, an interim report is submitted that provides a progress report on course and curricular changes that were suggested by the previous years assessment report findings. Program review self-study occurs every five-years and includes program-level, but is also designed for units to go beyond the assessment of student learning and effective teaching. A program review self-study should involve a broader and deeper self-evaluative study of the entire program (e.g., enrollment trends, degree/major completion trends, faculty hire, research/scholarship trends and so on) with an eye toward identifying overall areas of strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The HLC reaccreditation process curr
