Members

Meeting Schedule

Composition

The composition of the PRT shall be as follows:  Each academic unit will be represented by one elected faculty member. Elected members from academic units will serve staggered 2-year terms. These members will be nominated and elected by the in-unit faculty members of their respective units.  Ex-officio members:  Associate Vice President of Planning and Institutional Performance and/or designee.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Provide recommendations to Faculty Senate for the development, periodic review, and revision of standards, policies, and procedures for university-level management of program review, creation and elimination of all degree and certificate programs and the seven-year University Program Review Plan.
• Based on information received from the Office of Curriculum and Instruction, the Undergraduate Curriculum Team (UGCT) and the Graduate Curriculum Team (GCT), provide recommendations to Faculty Senate for the development, periodic review, and revision of standards, policies, and procedures for establishing new degree programs.
• Review the process of program review of all degree and certificate programs, inform and make recommendations to Faculty Senate regarding the outcomes of that process; specifically:
• Review guidelines for the selection of, and charges to external reviewers for each program under review.
• Review self-studies and make recommendations on their suitability for program review.
• Review the reports of the external reviewers and make recommendations on the adequacy of the report for program review.
• Review the response to the report from the program and the college leadership.
• Provide comments/recommendations in addition to those of the external reviewer as appropriate.
• Track program review response meetings, their results, and one-year follow-up actions.
• Create additional working groups as deemed appropriate or necessary by the PRT members.  The PRT facilitator can extend invitations for membership on working groups to FGCU faculty members, administrators, and/or staff members otherwise unaffiliated with the PRT.
• In consultation with the Office of Planning and Institutional Performance (PIP), provide recommendations to Faculty Senate on future needs and directions in program review.
• Provide information to Faculty Senate on how well FGCU program review procedures and products conform to current and future Florida Department of