What sort of data does the APRC review?
The data reviewed by the APRC are both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative data include such things as numbers of students in the program, number of program graduates, average class size, faculty-student ratio, cost per student credit hour, number of full-time faculty, number and utilization of part-time faculty, GPAs and test scores (ACT, GRE, etc.) of program students and graduates, employment of program graduates, etc. Although most of these data are complied by Institutional Research, it is expected that discussion and analysis of the data will be provided by program faculty. Qualitative data include evidence of the quality of the teaching and advising, indicators of students’ learning, documentation of the quality of the faculty in the program (including such things as publications, presentations, service, grant-writing, etc., as well as other indicators of faculty quality), evidence of program viability and the demand for graduates of the program, a description of the
