As was described in Section A.3 on page 4, the Academic Senate recommended, and the President approved, the establishment of a WASC Self-Study Steering Committee to oversee the preparation of the Proposal, as well as to review the reports for both the Capacity and Preparatory Review and the Educational Effectiveness Review.
The scope of our research effort requires broad involvement across all sectors of the university. There are three core commitments, and each core commitment has an equal number of research questions for the Capacity and Preparatory Review and for the Educational Effectiveness Review.
To manage the research activities, in September 2006, the Steering Committee established three Core Commitment Research Groups, one for each core commitment. The Steering Committee charged these three groups with the supervision, management, and review of the research questions in their respective areas.
Each Core Commitment Research Group will identify research teams for each of its research questions who possess the appropriate expertise to conduct the research projects. Each Core Commitment Research Group will review periodic progress reports from its research teams, and will approve each team’s final report. In particular, the Core Commitment Research Groups will oversee the teams’ activities to ensure that each research team seeks the appropriate type and level of involvement by the campus community.
Finally, each Core Commitment Research Group will prepare the final report from its area and will submit those reports to the Self-Study Steering Committee.
A detailed work plan may be found in Appendix E.
