Academic Senate Resolution
11.06.02
#AS-06-AY0203
Program Review
At the November 6, 2002 Academic Senate
meeting, President Elect Carmen Dominguez motioned, it was seconded and passed
by voice vote to accept the Draft Resolution Regarding Program Review #AS-06-AY0203.
Whereas, faculty members derive their
authority from their expertise as teachers and subject matter specialists, the
faculty has an inherent professional responsibility in the development and
implementation of policies and procedures governing Saddleback College program
review processes; therefore
Be it resolved that faculty receive
institutional support for these activities reflecting colleges that are
comparable to the size of
Be it resolved that Saddleback College
program review process shall promote professionalism, enhance performance, and
be effective in yielding a genuinely useful and substantive process for
determining program effectiveness, and
Be it further resolved that the program
review processes at Saddleback College will require 1) an articulation of
clear, relevant criteria upon which reviews will be based, 2) the establishment
of reasonable and timely intervals; 3) the establishment of the specific
purposes for which program reviews are conducted and articulation of those
purposes to everyone involved, and
Be it further resolved that the principal
purposes of the review process are to recognize and acknowledge good
performance, to enhance satisfactory performance and help programs which are
performing satisfactorily further their own growth, and to identify weak
performance and assist programs in achieving needed improvement, and
Be it further resolved that one of the
purposes of the program review process at Saddleback College is not that of
providing a mechanism or justification for program elimination; and
Be it further resolved that a program’s
students, staff, administrators, faculty, and their colleagues shall all
contribute to the program review, but
the program’s faculty shall play a central role in the program review
process and, together with appropriate administrators, assume principal
responsibility for the effectiveness of the process; and
Be it further resolved that the procedures
of the program review process shall foster a joint and cooperative exercise of
responsibility by the faculty, administration and governing board of Saddleback
College and shall reflect faculty and administrator expertise and authority in
evaluating professional work as well as the governing board’s legal and public
responsibility for the process, and
Be if finally resolved that the