Middle States Periodic Review Report

Campus View

SUNY Cortland PRR Committee

SUNY Cortland

Cortland, New York

Organizing for the Task

Identify Co-Chairs Attend PRR

Workshop Read up on the PRR Meet with President to

review preliminary plans

Create timeline Identify PRR Team

Spring/Summer 2006

Essential Reading for PRR Committee:

Handbook for Periodic Review Reports Characteristics of Excellence Most recent campus Self-Study Report Report of the visiting team following the

most recent Self-Study

The PRR Committee

Composition:

- Expertise in areas covered by PRR

- Campus-wide representation

- Administrators, Faculty, Staff

- 17 team members plus consultants

PRR Committee Members

Nancy Aumann & Virginia Levine, Co-Chairs Joy Hendrick, Seth Asumah Joan Sitterly, Janet Duncan, Doug DeRancy Dorothea Fowler, John Shirley, Gradin Avery Joe Governali, Marley Barduhn, Mary McGuire, Katie

Boyes David Ritchie, Bruce Mattingly, Mary K. Murphy Consultants: Mel King, Nasrin Parvizi, Paula Warnken,

Carol Van der Karr, Yvonne Murnane, Shawn Van Etten

Introduction to the PRR

The Middle States Accreditation Ten Year Cycle:

Self Study and Evaluation Visit 2002

Periodic Review Report 2007

Next Self Study and Evaluation Visit 2012

Definition of a PRR

a retrospective, current, and prospective analysis of an institution

a progress & planning report

PRR Goals To help institutions gauge their progress

in the achievement of goals & objectives

To enable the Commission to assess the current status, as well as the future prospects, of institutions

To fulfill the Commission’s accountability to the academic community and to the public

Components of the PRR:

Chapter 1:

Executive summary

Components of the PRR:

Chapter 2: Institution’s response to recommendations from the previous visiting team report

Components of the PRR:

Chapter 3: Major challenges and opportunities facing the institution

Components of the PRR:

Chapter 4: Projections and analysis of enrollment and finance for the next five years

Assumptions and data on past enrollment and fiscal trends

Components of the PRR:

Chapter 5: Evidence of: - Outcomes assessment - Linked institutional

planning and budgeting Evidence that the results of such

processes are being utilized

Components of the PRR

Chapter 6: Institutional Planning and Resource Allocation

Timeline for PRR Committee

Summer 2006 Identify Committee Sept-Dec 2006 Full and subcommittee

meetings Oct 12, 2006 Sub-committees

submit chapter outline Oct 2006 Co-chairs provide

feedback

Timeline, cont.

Nov 2-Dec 1, 2006 Three Chapter Drafts due

Jan-March 2007 Co-Chairs draft full document

March 2007 Committee Review

Campus Review of PRR: March 19 –April 13: Campus Input #1

April: Committee revisions

April 23-May 4: Campus Input #2

May 2007: Final PRR Committee

review/duplicating

Submit PRR package to Commission office and to external reviewers

JUNE 1, 2007

Middle States PRR

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