Unit Effectiveness Planning

Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

Each undergraduate and graduate program will annually set targets and develop action plans to achieve those targets. Subsequently in the following fall, programs will assesses the achievement of their goals, report outcomes, and revise targets and action plans as needed for the following year.

The targets and goals are based on the Gallaudet Strategic Plan Objectives of

A.5 Increase and broaden accountability for student enrollment
B.4 Increase and broaden accountability for student retention and graduation
D.3 Strengthen students' preparation for employment and career success
E.1 Establish Gallaudet's research agenda and set targets for externally-funded research proposal submission, funding, and completion by 2015 and beyond
E.2 Create the infrastructure needed to support a world-class research enterprise

UEP Templates

UEP Template: AY2012-2013
UEP Template: AY2011-2012

Definitions

Program Enrollment
At Gallaudet the census date is the fifteenth calendar day from the first day of class in the fall and spring semesters, and is the day on which formal student counts are produced. We count all students currently enrolled in a major/program (new and returning).

Program Retention
We count all those enrolled at census one fall and how many were retained. Those still enrolled the following fall are divided by those who were enrolled the previous fall after subtracting all those that graduated from that program in the intervening year out of the denominator.

Program Graduation Rate
Undergraduate
First-time, full-time freshmen in an entering year cohort are analyzed six years later. To determine their program/major since most don't have a major at the time of entering Gallaudet, a study is done of all majors the student had since entering and only the most recent one(s) are used. Then an analysis of whether the student did graduate within six years is done. If a student is in more than one major/program his/her data will be used for all applicable majors.

Graduate
We based the graduation data for graduate programs on the agreement the University has made with the US Department of Education for the Graduate student graduate rate -- GPRA indicator 1.11. "This indicator is a graduate student graduation rate for master's level students only (excluding Ph.D. and graduate certificate students). A cohort is created out of each fall's new master's level graduate enrollment, including all those who are new to a master's program at Gallaudet-regardless of whether they have already enrolled in another graduate program at the University. The graduate student graduation rate is calculated as the number of new master's degree students from that each fall that complete their program within a three year period. This new methodology is a logical method of calculating graduation of master's students that parallels established formulas already used to calculate undergraduate graduation rates."

It was agreed when calculating rates for unit effectiveness that the same calculations would be made for all departments/programs using the same methodology.