2000 Disciplines evolve over time as new ideas, evidence, and subfields emerge.
Departmental majors change with faculty turnover and as faculty interests migrate.
The College has found it valuable for departments and programs to pause and reflect upon their accidental or intentional evolution at least once every ten years. Self-studies also provide the Board of Trustees, the President, the Dean of the College and the Faculty Position Planning Committee with insight into the needs of a department or program and its place within the educational mission of the College as a whole. All departments and programs are admittedly different, but there are also some similarities. The following guidelines offer an organizational timetable and structure and a starting point for a self-study. Also attached is a list of questions meant to initiate discussion.