In order to speak with one voice, faculty members need to be part of the structural consciousness of their program. The purpose of the first section is to make visible the lattice work upon which the program itself is built. The University and the department have adopted goals for general education and for the discipline. Students have a right to know what these goals are. Faculty members have a right to know that their teaching assignments are valued and align with the mission of the department.
Students expect to make timely progress toward their degrees.
It is known that exams and grades drive student behavior. This section asks whether the program knows what happens to its students after they exit the program successfully. The purpose of these two sections is to query the department's external awareness, namely, to ask if the program is producing graduates who need and use what their education has given to them. The first questions in this section center on IBHE normative cost data.