Integration of Program Review Process and Collegewide Planning
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San Diego Miramar College’s Program Review process is directly tied to higher-level planning. Broad participation in integrated planning and program review, as with any shared-governance activity, is important to the effectiveness of the process. The central purpose of integrated planning and program review is to improve the effectiveness of programs and the College as a whole. The beneficiaries of this integrated planning are students and the community.
A secondary purpose of the integrated planning is to direct available resources including staffing, facilities and budgeted resources to the achievement of Program and Service Unit Goals and the College’s Strategic Plans and Goals.
Achieving Program and Service Unit goals occasionally requires resources not available from established budgets. These new resource requests must be identified during the Program Review process. All new resource requests are linked to the School/Service Area Program Review and the Division Plans which are reported into the College’s Educational Master Plan.
Requests and activities are mapped to the College’s Strategic Plan Goals, which are themselves based on the College Mission Statement. As such, both short-range and long-range needs for programs and services are captured in Program Review and channeled through higher-level plans to improve institutional effectiveness and academic quality.