TO: Alberto M. Olivares, Dean

College of Graduate Studies

FROM: Lee Clapp, Chair

Program Review Committee

DATE: March 19, 2007

SUBJECT: Master’s Graduate Program Review Report for 2006-2007

The Graduate Program Review Committee of the Graduate Council has completed its review of Master’s Degree programs in Chemistry, Communication Sciences and Disorders, English, and Natural Gas Engineering. The chairs/directors of each of the reviewed programs completed Program Review instruments and submitted these reports to the College of Graduate Studies. Individual committee members then evaluated the documents of the graduate program to which they were assigned, and prepared a summary report based upon the evaluation. The respective department chair and college Dean later read the completed summary, and signed a form sheet to acknowledge that he/she had read the summary report. The program directors and committee reviewers for the 2006-2007 programs evaluated were as follows:

Graduate Program	Program Director	Program Reviewer	Department Chair
Chemistry	Nicholas Beller	George Gresham	Greg Moehring
Communication Sciences and Disorders	Shari Beams	Enrique Massa	Glenn Perrigo
English	David Sabrio	Farzad Deyhim	Susan Roberson
Natural Gas Engineering	Ali Pilehvari	Lee Clapp	Ali Pilehvari

The Graduate Program Review Committee’s final recommendations for the four reviewed programs are as follows:

Chemistry: Continuation with recommendation to: 1) Create a formal Graduate Committee; 2) Form a committee to quantify and report on the resources and facilities available to the chemistry graduate program, particularly for new faculty start-up funds and instructional facilities and equipment; 3) Inform the faculty senate of the need for teaching load reductions and increased graduate teaching assistantships.

Communication Sciences and Disorders: Continuation with recommendation to: 1) Hire additional faculty; and 2) Secure graduate assistantships/scholarships.

English: Continuation with recommendation to: 1) Hire two full-time, tenure-track assistant professors; 2) Generate funding to support student assistantships and research; 3) Increase the number of faculty publications; 4) Increase faculty attendance at conferences; and 5) Increase recruitment of graduate students into the program, potentially by offering an increased number of graduate assistantships.

Natural Gas Engineering: Continuation with recommendation to: 1) Increase enrollment by about 50% by offering more financial assistance in the form of scholarships and teaching/research assistantships; 2) Increase funding for research projects and student support by improving the number and quality of proposals submitted to outside funding sources.