Academic Planning Manual

To assist with Academic Planning, the Chancellor's Office has provided a web-based guide that includes all pertinent laws, statutes, policies, and descriptions of processes used by the Chancellor's Office relating to academic programs.

CSU Program Planning Guide

Review of Existing Programs

The program review process (see University Program Review) strives to inform program decisions based upon evidence-based assessment. Assessment results, in turn, lead to a foundation for informed budget and curricular decisions. This dynamic interplay, which is at the heart of the program review, is primarily a faculty-driven process. Program review establishes intermediate benchmarks and follow-up plans that track progress toward achieving and ensuring alignment of student, programmatic, and university-wide academic goals and objectives. These benchmarks are assessed and reviewed in the annual reports. Program review and annual reports form the basis for reporting the program's continuous improvement strategies and success. Program review provides an evidence-based determination of whether students are accomplishing the program's learning objectives through outcomes-based assessment of student learning and development. The results of program review provide the evidentiary basis for informed, transparent and accountable decisions about program, faculty and student needs, curricular planning, and resource allocation and management. The campus systematically integrates program reviews into planning and budgeting processes.