Faculty responsible for program design and delivery have appropriate, relevant content expertise, scholarship records, and other professional experience and credentials. Program implementation and delivery plans are responsive to student needs and supportive of student retention and graduation, in light of program goals and resource availability. The program proposal includes a plan for periodic program evaluation focusing on the program objectives, productivity, faculty and resources, changes in environment such as competition and delivery modes, student outcomes, retention, and graduation. An efficient administration plan for the program is described, with clear accountability and appropriate roles for faculty committees and unit administrators. C. Standards for Costs and Revenues 1.
Proposal presents clear, logically consistent estimates of program costs and revenues.
Prospective student demand adequate for an efficient program is convincingly demonstrated, with specific attention to competing programs, other providers, and other delivery systems. Proposal establishes growth potential to generate adequate resources to support program costs from state formula funding sources after the first three years and, where appropriate, from non-state sources. Available inter-institutional, shared resources are utilized where appropriate. Overall program costs are justifiable in light of potential program benefits and impact. D. Compliance Standard Proposal complies in content and format with Coordinating Board rules and instructions for program authorization, so that approval is not likely to be delayed or complicated unnecessarily at that level.