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Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Performance of New Academic Programs: 2005-2010. 1. Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Post Approval Monitoring: Background. Post Approval Monitoring is carried out on all new academic programs of greater than 24 credit hours
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Tennessee Higher Education Commission Performance of New Academic Programs: 2005-2010 1
Tennessee Higher Education Commission Post Approval Monitoring: Background • Post Approval Monitoring is carried out on all new academic • programs of greater than 24 credit hours • Bachelor, Master’s, Doctoral- 5 years • Associate and below- 3 years • Monitors expenditures, enrollment and graduation in • comparison to institutionally developed projections • - Post Approval Monitoring classes are depicted in Appendix A 2
Tennessee Higher Education Commission Post Approval Monitoring: 2005-2010 • 24 programs concluded Post Approval Monitoring in • 2010 3
Tennessee Higher Education Commission Post Approval Monitoring: Graduation Projections • Developed by institutions during program proposal 4
Tennessee Higher Education Commission Post Approval Monitoring: Graduation Projections 5
Tennessee Higher Education Commission Post Approval Monitoring: Enrollment Projections • Serves as a gauge of future graduate production 6
Tennessee Higher Education Commission Post Approval Monitoring: Conclusions • In most cases, new academic programs did not meet • all projections developed by the institution • In 5 of 24 (20%) new programs, there is insufficient enrollment • to indicate future attainment of low producing standards • Important consideration for both resource allocation • and consideration of starting additional new programs • Per recently revised policies, institutions now have additional • tools to make an early assessment of need and projections for • new academic programs 7