Academic program
Evaluation under way
t How do you define excellence in an academic
program?
That question will face faculty and staff as the
Academic Program Evaluation begins on the UNL
campus, according to UNL Chancellor James Zumberge.
The program, now under, way, is to increase the
public accountability of the university. Zumberge said,
"As a result of inflation and other factors, we face
tough fiscal problems and must develop a strategy to
help us solve these problems while meeting our
responsibilities to society."
He added, "Public accountability requires that we
show benefits from our expenditures and that we meet
the ever changing needs of our students and' the
community which supports us."
Program Impetus
Providing impetus for program evaluation were the
Faculty Senate and the Legislature. Zumberge said;
"From the Faculty Senate came a resolution for a
screening and evaluation process sufficient to serve the
future of a University faced with declining enrollment,
rising costs and in need of quality improvement."
Zumberge added that the Legislature called for
Improved quality also, but asked, "How do you define
quality?"
The process of evaluation, according to Zumberge,
will consist of a brief initial evaluation of each program
by those involved in it. The evaluation will determine
goals, establish what the program is presently doing,
and how well it is doing it, and what ways the program
could improve.
included in the evaluation will be information about a
program's potential for extending educational opporT
tunities beyond the campus,, improving research,
enhancing service to the state and consideration of the
needs of the state's citizens not now being met.
Academic Program Evaluation will encompass the
University's Areas of Excellence program, Zumberge
said.
' 'They will be more deeply involved in the evaluation
process during the 1974-75 academic year."
Areas of Excellence involves the appropriation of
more than $440,000 to six different UNL programs to
develop their potential.
Others not excluded
NU President D. B. Varner said the designation of
the six programs does not exclude others from
consideration for fundsand fof future- reference as an. a
area of excellence. Zumberge said, "There' Wilt' be I
other areas of excellence proposed in the future, and
they will be proposed as a result of the initial screening
system."
The program evaluation will Include a look at the
justification of existing programs as well as how they
can be Improved.
"It is no longer an adequate response that we
continue an academic program because we have always
had it," Zumberge said.
Zumberge has concluded that the flexibility of
emphasizing promising programs, de-emphasizing or
eliminating programs that have outlived their useful
ness and recognizing the need for new programs "may
be retained only through extensive evaluation of the
programs, new and existing."
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