Academic Programs

Our Mission

Prairie State College is a richly diverse community college dedicated to providing student centered instruction that fosters success in adult, transfer, and workforce education.

Assessment

Department Chairs serve on an Outcomes Assessment Committee which meets three times each semester. Discipline and Program Coordinators review their programs annually, and report their findings to the Deans= group in late March of each year. Each discipline and program engages in a formal assessment of student learning outcomes annually, and these reports are due at the end of May. Summary reports of program reviews and student learning outcomes assessments are shared across the College.

Program Review

• Program Review at PSC (PDF*)
• Benchmarks for Program Review: Disciplines (PDF)
• Benchmarks for Program Review: Career Programs (PDF)
• Template for Program Review Report (MS Word)
• Benchmarks for Program Review: Library (PDF)
• Template for Library Program Review Report (MS Word)

Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

• Elements of Assessing Student Learning (PDF)
• Expressing Student Learning Outcomes (suggested language) (PDF)
• Templates for Assessment Plans/Reports (MS Word)
• Selected Model Assessment Reports 2007-2008 (PDF)

Curriculum

Academic programs and courses are developed and regularly reviewed by faculty to that our students benefit from instruction that is sound, rigorous, and current. At the heart of this process is the curriculum Committee, an elected body of twelve faculty members who provide peer review in a formal curriculum process that provides approval for development, modification, and withdrawal of courses and programs.

• Curriculum Committee
• Curriculum Process at PSC
• CurricUNET

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