Criteria for Review 2.5
The institution's academic programs actively involve students in learning, challenge them to achieve high expectations, and provide them with appropriate and ongoing feedback about their performance and how it can be improved.
Links to Evidence and Related Topics
General Education
- Executive Memorandum 99-05: General Education Program
- The General Education MOU
- Information about General Education, Course Links Program, and Upper Division Themes in CSU, Chico Catalog.
- GEAC Reviews and Course Reports
- Executive Memorandum 99-03 about Upper Division WP Requirement
- NSSE
- CELT and GEAC workshops on delivery of General Education courses
- Executive Memorandum 92-13: Revision to Grading Policy
- Comprehensive exams:
- MA in Education
- MA in Communication Studies
- MA in Political Science
- MA in Social Work
- Students employed in research
- Student Academic Engagement Task Force Report
Baccalaureate Programs
- University Catalog:
- University Level:
- The College of Agriculture completed their own student engagement study to determine what is happening in their own college.
- The University promotes the 7 Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
- GEAC reviews General Education courses to see if early assessment is occurring. (some General Education courses are in the major)
- Executive Memorandum 99-03: Writing Assessment requires high expectations in writing requirements.
- SETs give a fair representation of the student's view of "students are challenged to achieve high expectations" and "students are provided with appropriate and ongoing feedback"
- Colleges of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Communication and Education and Humanities and Fine Arts sponsor Student Symposiums
- Undergraduate Research Competition
- The College of Business conducted focus groups with students during spring 2006 to measure faculty feedback:
- April 15, 20006 Memo to Provost McNall regarding NSSE results
- March 22, 2005 focus group participant responses
- March 23, 2005 focus group participant responses
Graduate Programs
- Graduate coordinators monitor student progress in the graduate program and approve their classification at progressively higher stages from conditionally classified through advancement to candidacy
- Graduate students work closely with faculty throughout their program, which ensures on-going feedback on student progress in meeting faculty expectations
- Policies on culminating activities demonstrate high expectations of student performance; departments have processes for helping students to prepare for the culminating experience
- Course syllabi demonstrate appropriate academic expectations for graduate students
- Department/program goals (MBA) and objectives articulate appropriate expectations of graduate students.
- Students must maintain a 3.0 GPA in their graduate program; GCC established a probation and disqualification policy that identifies students who fall below the minimum GPA and informs them that they will be disqualified unless they raise their GPA within a specified period of time.
- Students are required to pass the Graduate Writing Requirement (GWAR), as determined by individual programs.
- Thesis editor works with students to meet all requirements for the culminating experience, including Copyright and Human Subjects Review.
- All theses and projects are run through Turnitin.com unless specifically instructed not to do so by a department: