Standard
11: Educational Offerings (Graduate
Education)
The
institution’s educational offerings display academic content, rigor, and
coherence that are appropriate to its higher education mission. The institution identifies student learning
goals and objectives, including knowledge and skills, for its educational
offerings.
An accredited
institution is expected to possess or demonstrate the following attributes or
activities. These elements also apply to all other educational activities
addressed within Standard 13.
1. educational
offerings congruent with its mission, which include appropriate areas of
academic study of sufficient content, breadth and length, and conducted at
levels of rigor appropriate to the programs or degrees offered;
This element for undergraduate
education is covered in the self-study.
For Graduate Education:
As
2. formal
undergraduate, graduate, and/or professional programs—leading to a degree or
other recognized higher education credential—designed to foster a coherent
student learning experience and to promote synthesis of learning;
This element for undergraduate
education is covered in the self-study.
For Graduate Education:
Each school has oversight of
the programs they offer, with standards for curricular development and
oversight and faculty involvement. (see standard 10, element 2) Graduate
catalogs for each school provide listings of all courses offered and
degree requirements.
All new programs go through an
extensive internal planning phase and external review process that address issues
of need, quality, student learning outcomes, assessment, and resources.
(see
Standard 2, Element 2)
Individual programs are largely responsible for fostering coherence and synthesis of graduate student learning. Some examples across the university include:
·
Newark Public
Administration
·
New
Brunswick Classics
·
New
Brunswick Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
·
New Brunswick
Professional Psychology
·
New
Brunswick Statistics and Biostatistics
·
New Brunswick Women’s and Gender Studies
·
Newark and New Brunswick Accounting
and Business
· Newark and New Brunswick Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences (BioMaPS)
3. program goals
that are stated in terms of student learning outcomes;
This is covered in Section VI
of the Self-Study.
4. periodic
evaluation of the effectiveness of any curricular, co-curricular, and
extra-curricular experiences that the institution provides its students and
utilization of evaluation results as a basis for improving its student
development program and for enabling students to understand their own
educational progress (see Standards 9: Student Support Services and 14:
Assessment of Student Learning);
Where undergraduate and
graduate curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular experiences are
intertwined, these are covered in the Self-Study (section II, section VI). See also standard 9, element 10 for a discussion of
assessment activities of student support services for graduate students.
5. learning
resources, facilities, instructional equipment, library services, and professional
library staff adequate to support the institution’s educational programs; and
This element for undergraduate
education is covered in the self-study.
For Graduate Education:
Educational
offerings for graduate students at
Some University's twenty-six libraries and centers especially serve particular graduate units or programs. These include the Camden Law Library, the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, the Institute of Jazz Studies collection, the Rutgers Law Library-Newark, and the Center of Alcohol Studies Library.
The Office of Informational
Technology also plays an important role in supporting
7. programs that
promote student use of a variety of information and learning resources;
This element for undergraduate
education is covered in the self-study.
For Graduate Education:
In addition to its libraries and the Office of
Informational Technology,
·
Research laboratories in Psychology
· Instrumentation Resources in Food Science
· The nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy on the Camden Campus
·
The Center for Molecular and
Behavioral Science
·
The University Heights Center for
Advanced Imaging
·
The Southern African Large
Telescope
·
The Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience
·
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Collections
·
Facilities for the creative and performing arts,
including music, theater arts, and visual
arts.
8. provision of
comparable quality of teaching/instruction, academic rigor, and educational
effectiveness of the institution’s courses and programs regardless of the
location or delivery mode;
This element for graduate education
is covered in Section IV of the Self-Study concerning Off-Campus and Distance
Education.
9. published and
implemented policies and procedures regarding transfer credit. The
consideration of transfer credit or recognition of degrees will not be determined
exclusively on the basis of the accreditation of the sending institution or the
mode of delivery but, rather, will consider course equivalencies, including
expected learning outcomes, with those of the receiving institution’s curricula
and standards. Such criteria will be fair, consistently applied, and publicly
communicated;
At
10. policies and procedures to assure that the
educational expectations, rigor, and student learning within any accelerated
degree program are comparable to those that characterize more traditional
program formats;
Accelerated dual-degree programs at
11. consistent with the institution’s educational
programs and student cohorts, practices and policies that reflect the needs of
adult learners;
This element which applies specifically to undergraduate
education is covered in the self-study.
12. course syllabi that incorporate expected learning
outcomes; and
13. assessment of student learning and program outcomes
relative to the goals and objectives of the undergraduate programs and the use
of the results to improve student learning and program effectiveness (see
Standard 14: Assessment of Student Learning).
These elements are covered in
Section VI (Assessment of Student Learning) of the Self-Study.
Educational
Offerings (Additional Elements for Graduate and Professional Education)
The institution’s educational offerings display academic content, rigor,
and coherence that are appropriate to its higher education mission. The institution identifies student learning
goals and objectives, including knowledge and skills, for its educational
offerings.
Additional
elements for graduate and professional education
1. graduate
curricula providing for the development of research and independent thinking
that studies at the advanced level presuppose;
Graduate curricula are detailed in university
catalogs and departmental websites for the Camden Campus,
Newark
Campus, and New Brunswick Campus.
2. faculty with
credentials appropriate to the graduate curricula; and
Preparation and qualifications for faculty is covered in Standard 10
Element 1. Scholarship and
competence for graduate instruction, including supervision of doctoral
dissertations, are the bases for membership in the Graduate
Faculty.
3. assessment of
student learning and program outcomes relative to the goals and objectives of
the graduate programs (including professional and clinical skills, professional
examinations and professional placement where applicable) and the use of the
results to improve student learning and program effectiveness (see Standard 14:
Assessment of Student Learning).
This element is covered in the
self-study in section VI on Assessment of Student Learning.