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Approved by The Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA) of the 
NASPAA

COPRA acknowledges the NASPAA Self Study Instructions Task Force, 
the original authors of this document, 
which was turned over to COPRA in October 2009.


Taskforce Chair: 
Jack Meek, University of La Verne

Taskforce Members:
Akhlaque Haque, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kenneth Matwiczak, The University of Texas at Austin
Michelle Piskulich, Oakland University
Nadia Rubaii-Barrett, Binghamton University
Michelle Saint-Germain, California State University, Long Beach

Advisory Members:
Stuart Bretschneider, Syracuse University 
David Coursey, Arizona State University
Steve Maser, Willamette University
BJ Reed, University of Nebraska at Omaha


 


Self Study Instructions

Table of Contents



Program Fact Sheet..........................................................................4

Standard 1. Managing the Program Strategically....................................6
1.1 Mission Statement..........................................................................6
1.2 Performance Expectations...............................................................8
1.3 Program Evaluation..........................................................................8

Standard 2. Matching Governance with the Mission.................................9
2.1 Administrative Capacity.....................................................................9
2.2 Faculty Governance.........................................................................10

Standard 3. Matching Operations with the Mission: Faculty Performance..11
3.1 Faculty Qualifications.......................................................................12
3.2 Faculty Diversity..............................................................................13
3.3 Research, Scholarship and Service....................................................16

Standard 4. Matching Operations with the Mission: Serving Students........16
4.1 Student Recruitment.........................................................................17
4.2 Student Admissions..........................................................................17
4.3 Support for Students..........................................................................20
4.4 Student Diversity...............................................................................22

Standard 5. Matching Operations with the Mission: Student Learning.........23
5.1 Universal Required Competencies.......................................................24
5.2 Mission-Specific Required Competencies............................................25
5.3 Mission-Specific Elective Competencies..............................................25
5.4 Professional Competence..................................................................27

Standard 6. Matching Resources with the Mission...................................28
6.1 Resource Adequacy..........................................................................28

Standard 7. Matching Communications with the Mission...........................32
7.1 Communications...............................................................................33

Glossary...............................................................................................37

APPENDIX A.........................................................................................41
Standard 1. Managing the Program Strategically.......................................41
Standard 2. Matching Governance with the Mission...................................44
Standard 3 Matching Operations with the Mission: Faculty Performance.....45
Standard 4 Matching Operations with the Mission: Serving Students...........50
Standard 5 Matching Operations with the Mission: Student Learning...........53
Standard 6. Matching Resources with the Mission.....................................58
Standard 7. Matching Communications with the Mission............................60

APPENDIX B.........................................................................................66



 
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