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(Track, Pathway, Concentration)
Institution________________________________________________________
Degree Granting Unit (Department(s), College, School or Interdisciplinary Unit)____________________________________________________________
Degree (Level)____________________________________________________
of (Type)________________________________________________________
in
(Major)________________________________________________________
Mode of Delivery ____ single
campus/traditional classroom ____ satellite
____videotape ____ internet/web
____ other (check all that apply)
Campus or off-campus site at which
courses will be offered:
_________________
_______________________________________________________
Proposed Starting Date
_______________________________________________
Academic Department Representative ___________________________________
(Name) ___________________________________________________________
(Title) ____________________________________________________________
(Address) _________________________________________________________
(Telephone) ________________________________________________________
(E-mail) ___________________________________________________________
Date ______________________________________________________________
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Outline for a Graduate Program Option (Track, Pathway,
Concentration) Proposal
I.
Program Need
A.
Relationship to Institutional Role and Mission.
B.
Documentation of Need for Program Option.
Please provide objective data,
studies, or the results of institutional
assessments conducted to document a special need. Use any of the
following possible justifications,
as appropriate to the program’s nature:
1. Student interest
or demand.
2.
Cultural, artistic, and intellectual growth.
3.
Economic growth and development.
4.
Changes is occupation and profession.
5.
Workforce needs of local industry (Please detail whether workforce
need requires new graduates or the retraining of present employees
and estimate the demand for, and supply of, graduate.)
6. Service to
community (Please describe the potential opportunities for
service
to the community which program faculty, students, or
administrative staff could provide.
Include, as appropriate, opportunities
for research, internships, or service.)
7. Relationship to
HECB policies and goals for higher education and/or
Update
to the Master Plan for Higher Education.
C. Relationship
to Other Institutions within Washington or Other Programs
within the University of Washington.
1. Duplication
(Please describe similar programs offered by a public or
independent institution.)
2. Uniqueness
of program (Please detail the unique aspects of the proposed
program which differentiate it from similar programs described above.)
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II. Program
Description
A. Goals
and objectives and their relation to the existing program.
B. Curriculum.
Provide complete course descriptions.
Link the proposed
courses to the goals of
the program.
1. Course of
study, relation to existing program.
2. Admission
requirements if different from existing program.
C. Faculty.
1. Profile of
faculty specifically for this track. (See
Table 1. Please
provide a profile of the number of faculty to be part- and full-time,
the
number of faculty to be adjunct or regular, and total FTE faculty
allocated to the
program.)
D. Students.
1. Projected
enrollments for 5 years for this program option and entire
program.
2. Expected
time for completion of program option in comparison to other
options in the program.
3. Diversity
if different from overall program (Please detail the special
efforts planned to recruit and retain students who are persons of
color or disability.)
E. Administration.
1.
Describe any additional administrative support or how additional
program option will be served by existing staff.
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III.
Program Assessment
A. Assessment
plan (Please provide a detailed plan for assessing how well
program objectives – see II.A. above – have been achieved.
The Higher
Education Coordinating Board assumes that academic units have an
assessment plan to determine how effective program objectives have
been achieved through student learning outcomes.
The plan should include
a
description of how the student learning outcomes will be assessed, how
information is gathered and how it will be used.
Student learning outcomes
should describe what graduates of the program will know and be able to
do.
IV.
Finances
A. Summary of additional costs due to the addition
of this track. Describe
how their costs will be met. Funding
of programs is of particular
interest to the HECB. The
data should be a realistic estimate of program
costs.
V.
External Evaluation of Proposal
A. External
Expert Reviewers (Please provide the names and titles of the two
external evaluators who can review the proposal for the Graduate
School.)
Table 1
Program Faculty
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Rank* |
Status** |
% Effort in Program |
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*Assistant,
Associate, or Full Professor; Adjunct, Research, Other Rank
**Full – or part-time.
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