Welcome to the 2009-2010 MPC Academic Senate Web Page.

The Academic Senate meets the first and third Thursdays of each month at 2:45-4:30 in the Sam Karas Room.

New Academic Affairs Program Review Guidelines

The new guidelines are more streamlined and easy to complete. We hope they will encourage a more useful and helpful program review process for all of the programs.

The SLO assessment forms, called "Instructor Reflections" and "Program Reflections" are now part of the program review cycle for Academic Affairs--please see pages 21-22 of the guidelines linked below. This was a joint effort between the Academic Senate and AAAG.

Academic Affairs Program Review Guidelines

Example faculty and staff survey from Humanities

Student Learning Outcomes: the forms now reside on pages 21-22 of the program review

Starting in Fall 2008 and ending in Spring 2009, we asked instructors to fill out an SLO assessment forms part of a pilot program on SLO assessment. This form has been reviewed and revised, and is now incorporated into the Academic Affairs Program Review Processes detailed immediately above. The new "Instructor Reflections" and "Program Reflections" are available on pages 21-22 of the Academic Affairs Program Review Guidelines, linked above. Please use these forms to record your analysis of your students' attainment of course SLOs.

We are no longer asking instructors to fill out the "Old Form". However, completed examples of the "Old Form" may help you formulate ideas on how to complete the new forms that reside within the program review process.

Links to completed examples of the "Old From"

 Why fill out these SLO forms?

It is an effort to promote dialog among faculty about what MPC students should be able to do as they exit our courses. The Academic Senate asks that you use these forms to promote dialog as part of your annual contributions to the program review cycle. We hope that, as a result of using this form, conversations will develop between instructors who teach within disciplines, in related disciplines, in courses that are sequential within programs, and across MPC. We hope the conversations reveal greater insight into student achievement of faculty-designed objectives and outcomes and ultimately lead to improvement in student learning. The value is in the dialog.