Motion made and seconded at CS Dept mtg 11am Tue 20th Jan 2009

Motion passed.

14 For 
 1 Against
 3 Abstain

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Background:

ABET CAC concluded that the WPI CS department was not making
well-documented continuous improvements to our program: even though
they acknowledged that program improvements had been made, it was not
clear to them that they has been made as a result of data gathered in
the assessment process.

Rationale:

We need to ensure that we make data evaluation part of our
department's standard practice, and clearly demonstrate that many or
all program changes are triggered by this reflection.  The Education
Committee is the department's formal body entrusted with considering
changes to our undergraduate program, and consequently they need to
play a role in acting and documenting that action during the
improvement process. 

Motion: 

The WPI Computer Science Department moves that the the Education
Committee, with the cooperation of the Accreditation Coordination
Committee, will on a yearly basis use the department's Threshold
Performance Criteria to evaluate the collected alumni survey data,
will propose appropriate action, will deliver their conclusions to the
department, will monitor any resulting performance changes, and will
document these activities.

Comments:

The alumni survey is usually done in February with data analysed in
about April.  Feedback to the department of these results is usually
done via email as soon as they are available, during the department
retreat in the summer, and at the start of A term in a department
faculty meeting.  The Education Committee will establish a similar
schedule for their evaluation, determination of appropriate remedial
action, and feedback to the department. They also need to ensure that
the process is documented, and forms part of the committee's yearly
schedule of activities. 


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