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Program planning and review

A page within Faculty Senate

The following standing committees and their bylaws are created by action of the senate to support its work.

Please refer to the Faculty Senate Policies and Articles and Bylaws for further information regarding the senate and faculty committees.

Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes are the official record of proceedings and actions taken during committee meetings. Please follow these guidelines for taking meeting minutes for faculty senate meetings.  Questions can be directed to the Faculty Senate office at senate@uwlax.edu.

2023-2024 Membership

Nilakshi Borah
Beth Boser, Chair/Convener
Jennifer Butler Modaff
Jennifer Kosiak
Brian Edward Kumm-Schaler
Margaret A Maher
Gregory Parmeter, Recorder
Kristofer Rolfhus
TBD

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Formulating and reviewing local policies and standards concerning admissions, advising, retention, advanced standing, probation, dismissal, readmission, the grading system, and graduation honors for undergraduate students. 
  • Ensuring equitable application of standards by the undergraduate schools and colleges. A voting member has the responsibility to recuse themself if they are unable to ensure equitable application of standards due to a conflict of interest. 
  • Supervising the administration of these standards and formulating procedures for hearing student appeals and petitions on academic matters not resolved by administrative offices of the university. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports, and committee documents for the Academic Planning Committee.

APR Committee Documents

Undergraduate APR:

2023-2024 Membership

Linda Dickmeyer
Scott Dickmeyer, replacing Xinhui Li fall 2023
Mehtap Eklund
John Fitz Randolph May
Eileen Narcotta-Wlep
Jocelyn Newton
Nathan arnberg
Emily A Whitney
Hongying Xu
Recep Pekdemir
Scott Reber
?, Undergraduate Student Representative
?, Undergraduate Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining and updating the procedures and criteria used to review existing undergraduate academic programs at UWL. 
  • Scheduling and conducting, in consultation with the provost/vice chancellor, the audit and review of undergraduate academic programs, including review of newly implemented undergraduate academic programs. 
  • Reviewing the Faculty Workload Policy and monitoring its application. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Graduate APR:

2023-2024 Membership

Jennifer Butler Modaff, Chair
Anita Davelos
Robert J Dixon
Inga Cluppert
Sergey Komissarov, recorder
Sumei Liu
TBD
TBD
Elliot Knoke, Student Representative

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining and updating the procedures and criteria used to review existing graduate academic programs at UWL. 
  • Scheduling and conducting, in consultation with the provost/vice chancellor, the audit and review of graduate academic programs, including review of newly implemented graduate academic programs. 
  • Reviewing the Graduate Faculty Workload Policy and monitoring its application. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Click here for previous academic year committee membership, meeting minutes, charge letters, final reports, and committee documents for the Academic Program Review Committees.

2023-2024 Membership

Nilakshi Borah, recorder
Karen Hart
Bryan Kopp, chair
Mettap Eklund
Weixu Lu, convener
TBD
TBD

Patrick Barlow, Assessment Coordinator
Sam Cocks, Assessment Associate
Megan Lister, Assessment Associate
Shelley Hay, Assessment Associate
Cordial Gillette, Assessment Associate

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Coordinating and monitoring the assessment of academic programs by: 
    • Reviewing program-level assessment plans and assessment reports for academic programs in accordance with Undergraduate Academic Program Review Committee (UAPR) and Graduate Academic Program Review Committee (GAPR) policies. 
    • Providing recommendations for improvement based on that review, to department chairs, program directors, and departmental assessment coordinators. 
    • Acting as a resource for programs throughout the assessment cycle. 
  • Archiving all documentation related to the committee’s involvement in program assessment and making that documentation available on request to academic programs, UAPR, and GAPR. 
  • Gathering other program assessment information as needed. 

Charge Letter

Meeting Minutes

Committee Documents

The major tasks of this committee will be two-fold: 

  1. Fall semester: Review program assessment reports and provide feedback to enable continued improvement in the undertaking of quality assessment.
  2. Spring semester: Review program level assessment plans for academic programs and provide recommendations for plan improvements to department chairs, program directors, and departmental assessment coordinators. 

Please note: This committee serves a different purpose than the Academic Program Review (APR) Committee. The distinction between the work of Program Review (APR) and Program Assessment (UPAC) is illustrated below.

PROGRAM EVALUATION (program review). A systematic procedure for collecting, analyzing and using information to answer questions about the extent to which a program is achieving its goals. Typically, it focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of a program. Assessment of student learning outcomes in the program may be included as one source of information to evaluate the program.  

PROGRAM ASSESSMENT (contrast with program evaluation). A systematic procedure for collecting, analyzing and using information about student learning with respect to program-level learning outcomes. Results are used to inform decisions about how to improve student learning in the program. 

If you require further information, email the faculty senate office
at senate@uwlax.edu or call 608-785-8018.

Faculty Senate Meetings

Click on each date below to see the agenda, meeting minutes, and distributed documents.

Fall 2023

May 4 Oct. 12 Nov. 16
Sept. 14

Oct.26 meeting cancelled*

*replaced with information session in Graff Hall

Nov. 30
Sept. 28 Nov. 9 Dec. 7

Spring 2024

Feb 1 Mar 7 cancelled April 18
Feb 15 Mar 21 May 2 + 59th Organizational
Feb 29 April 4  

All Faculty Senate meetings are scheduled in Union 2310 and typically start at 3:30 p.m.

 

Faculty Committee Meetings