However, information gathered during a review may, at times, be used for other purposes such as planning and resource allocation. Relevant, rigorous, current and coherent curriculum. Ensuring faculty quality and productivity. Ensuring that resources are wisely used.
Programs are to be evaluated in terms of the long-range planning priorities on the campus.
Achieving strategic academic goals, Reallocating resources among academic units, and Demonstrating accountability by setting benchmarks for quality, cost and demand. The APR process is meant to result in benchmarks for research and creative or scholarly activity, as well as minimum student-faculty ratios. I would like to have the committee's recommendations on these matters by March 1, 1999. As the committee carries out its deliberations, I would also like it to think about the coordination of these allocation and assessment activities with the possible development of long-range plans for individual programs and departments.